title: Crib sheets or security blankets?
abstract: This article describes the sanctioned use of crib sheets as a nursing intervention to decrease test anxiety when the classroom is the practice setting for psychiatric/mental health nursing faculty. The products that the students created offered additional unsuspected benefits. The faculty were convinced that the use of crib sheets can be a sound intervention to reduce students' test-taking anxiety.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Drake
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Freed
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hunter
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D008192:Deception; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*