Aim: This study aimed to describe nursing students' experiences of what facilitate orimpede the achievement of learning outcomes in PBL-basednursing education.Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.Methods: Data were collected from individual semi-structuredinterviews with 18undergraduate nursing students in Sweden and were analysed using Burnard's qualitativecontent analysis.Results: The results were organized into three categories: (a) understanding of therequired level of knowledge depth (b) tutor's engagement and (c) student base groupinteractions. These categories represent essential components of PBL that couldeither facilitate or impede students' achievement of learning outcomes in nursingeducation. To improve the students' opportunities to achieve the learning outcomes,proper introduction of and a continuous education on PBL as a pedagogical methodprovided both to students and tutors should be considered important.© 2021 The Authors
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