Snapps: An Innovative Method to Facilitate Clinical Judgement Skills Among Undergraduate Nursing Students

Clinical Judgement skills play a pivotal role in the professional journey of nursing students, enabling them to communicate effectively with both healthcare teams and patients. However, conventional teaching approaches tend to emphasize memorization rather than fostering critical thinking and clinical reasoning abilities. The SNAPPS (Summarize, Narrow, Analyze, Probe, Plan, Select) method, initially designed for medical education, presents a structured framework for case presentations, encouraging active learning and introspection. Objective: To determine the student perception on SNAPPS method to enhance clinical judgement Design: Non-experimental Descriptive Design. Settings: Selected Nursing College of Metropolitan city Methods: Before the clinical placement, students underwent training in the SNAPPS method. Following this student chose a clinical case from their assigned area (Eye/Burns/ENT) and applied the SNAPPS format during their Clinical Presentation. Subsequently, feedback regarding students' perception of the SNAPPS method was collected through a Google Form. Results: Descriptive Statistics used for data analysis. Students perception on SNAPPS method collected using 5-point Likert Scale. Majority of the students gave positive response. Overall rating of the Likert scale was 4.74. Conclusion: The structured framework of SNAPPS facilitates active learning, critical thinking, and reection, essential for nursing practice.