Muhammad Ali Garko, Hayat Emam Mohammed Gommaa, Umar Abdullahi Musa, Ibrahim Muhammad Usman and Abdullahi Adamu
Keywords: Perception, Undergraduate, Learning style, Psychomotor performance, Medical-surgical nursing.
2026-04-22 DOI: Garko et al. J Biomed & App Sci FUD (2025) 4:2
Background: Students’ learning styles influence their psychomotor performance, especially in medical-surgical nursing. As such, medical-surgical nursing is considered to be the backbone of nursing theory and practice for undergraduate nursing students. Therefore, the style of learning medical-surgical nursing among students should be given profound attention. Aim: This study aim to explore nursing undergraduates’ perceptions of learning style influence on their medical-surgical nursing psychomotor performances in North-west, Nigeria. Methodology: Qualitative design was employed. Overall, 13 students were interviewed in the study. A purposive sampling technique was applied during the recruitment of the participants. The data was transcribed verbatim, and analyzed manually. Resultant themes associated with the codes were interpreted and presented in a thematic form. Results: The result of this study revealed that Auditory, Visual, and Read, and write learning styles were mostly applied by the students in learning medical-surgical nursing. The students perceived their psychomotor performance in medical-surgical nursing as very good. A positive influence of learning style on students’ medical-surgical nursing psychomotor performance was reported. Conclusion: The study concluded that the learning style of undergraduate nursing students in Northwest Nigeria has a significant influence on their psychomotor performance in medical-surgical nursing.