As future healthcare professionals, Master of Nursing Specialist (MNS) students will play an important role in nursing and healthcare. MNS education emphasises the cultivation of students’ critical and clinical thinking. Traditional classroom methods often result in students being unable to combine theory with practice and reduce their ability to problem-solve within the scope of clinical or professional services. However, in economically underdeveloped areas with insufficient educational resources, it is difficult to use real clinical situations or virtual reality technology to carry out teaching. To fill this gap, we introduced the digital story teaching method into classroom teaching in Shanxi Province in northern China, which is an economically underdeveloped agricultural province. Real clinical cases were adapted into stories, with integrated digital media elements. A before-and-after study design was adopted to compare the differences between the digital story teaching method group and the traditional teaching method group. The results indicate that students engaged in learning with the digital story teaching method demonstrated more active learning styles, clinical problem-solving skills, and higher academic achievements in classroom performance and examinations. As a continuous and low-cost flexible education method, the digital story teaching method is a teaching mode suitable for popularisation in areas where clinical teaching resources are relatively scarce.

Background: In 2019, China completed the pilot project “Internet Plus Nursing Service.” The study aimed to investigate the attitude, willingness, and motivation of third-year undergraduate nursing students toward “Internet Plus Nursing Service,” providing a reference for the development of “Internet Plus Nursing Service” and related nursing education. Methods: This cross-sectional study comprised 508 third-year undergraduate nursing students from a public University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, using a self-designed survey.Results: Of these 508 nursing students, 314 (61.81%) expressed support for the implementation of “Internet Plus Nursing Service,” 150 (29.52%) remained neutral and 44 (8.66%) expressed disapproval. In regards to career choice, 279 (54.92%) were willing to choose “Internet Plus Nursing Service” as their future career choice, 51 (10.04%) were unwilling, and 178 (35.04%) were unsure. The top three motivations to choose “Internet Plus Nursing Service” as their future career choice were added income, high autonomy and flexibility, and good job prospects. On the contrary, the top three motivation not to choose were safety concern, lack of time and energy, unwilling elderly care. gender, whether an only child or not, home location, and degree of knowledge and skills required for elderly care were not significantly associated with the willingness of nursing students to participate in “Internet Plus Nursing Service” (P > 0.05). Experience of community activities or a part-time job, elderly care experience, choice of nursing profession, satisfaction with nursing profession, willingness to engage in nursing work after graduation, and willingness to engage in elder care work were significantly associated with the willingness of nursing students to participate in “Internet Plus Nursing Service” (P < 0.05).Conclusion: Students had a positive attitude towards “Internet Plus Nursing Service” and were willing to choose “Internet Plus Nursing Service” as their future career choice. However, they lacked the willingness to engage in elder care after graduation. School education should strengthen the nursing education of elder care, develop a diversified nursing service model and professional training programs that meet social demands and professional needs, as well as address the opportunities and challenges of the Internet era.

Background: In 2019, China completed the pilot project “Internet plus Nursing Service.” As undergraduate nursing students are the future of nursing, their attitude, willingness, and motivation toward “Internet plus Nursing Service” deserves study.The study aimed to investigate the attitude, willingness, and motivation of third-year undergraduate nursing students toward “Internet plus Nursing Service,” providing a reference for the development of “Internet plus Nursing Service” and related nursing education. Methods: This cross-sectional study comprised 508 third-year undergraduate nursing students from a public University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, using a self-designed survey. Results: Most students held a positive attitude towards “Internet plus Nursing Service,” and were willing to choose “Internet plus Nursing Service” as their future career choice. Conclusion: School education should develop a diversified nursing service model, and professional training programs that meet social demands and professional needs, and address the opportunities and challenges brought by the Internet era should be implemented.