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Currently, there has been a progressive shortage of not only the number of frontline healthcare providers but also a decline in the quality of nursing care. There is a growing concern to rethink the approaches on how nurses are prepared, explore and test novel approaches for delivering the nursing curricula. This study tested the effect of the problem‐based facilitatory teaching approach on metacognition among nursing students in Tanzania, higher learning institutions.

A controlled pre‐/post‐test quasi‐experimental study design with a quantitative research approach was employed in this study.

The study was conducted between February–June 2019 including two purposively selected higher learning institutions in the Dodoma region, the central zone of Tanzania. The 401 randomly selected undergraduate nursing students (interventional = 134 and control = 267) were involved. The …