Nursing Students
Conditions
Keywords
Preceptorship, simulation, nursing, catheters
Brief summary
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of nursing undergraduates in dressing of tunneled central venous access in the simulator, according to the aid of a preceptorship or an auto-instructional guide.
Detailed description
The simulation facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills and decision-making required for clinical practice. Mentoring has been employed and valued as pedagogical process qualifier. The hypothesis of this study was that students who trained with the assistance of a preceptorship had better practical performance when compared to students who used an auto-instructional guide.
Interventions
OTHERPreceptorship
After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.
OTHERAuto-instructional guide
After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.
Sponsors
University of Sao Paulo
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* students regularly enrolled in the last year of the undergraduate nursing program of a public university
Exclusion criteria
* students who did not comply with any of the study's phases * students who presented performance \> 70% in the pretest
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure | 1 day, immediately after the training simulator | The practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure of each student was analyzed according to a list of 28 steps of procedure, including the preparation of environment and material, antisepsis, curative application and recording (score: 0 to 35). The list of items used to analyze the steps of the catheter dressing procedure were face and content validated by five experts working in the oncology field. |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed