Competence
Conditions
Brief summary
This study is going to compare different teaching strategies for improving newly recruited nurses' comprehensive nursing assessment skills.
Detailed description
Comprehensive nursing assessment is imperative for newly recruited nursing personnel to holistically identify patients' issues, thereby ensuring the provision of high-quality care. This study employs a randomized controlled trial design and will be conducted at a medical center in northern Taiwan. Eligibility criteria for participation require individuals to be new nurses entering the hospital for the first time and lacking prior clinical work experience. Those working part-time will be excluded from the study. A projected enrollment of 60-80 participants includes 30-40 nurses in both the intervention and comparison groups. Nurses assigned to the intervention group will receive nursing health assessment instruction and engage in discussions utilizing humanoid diagrams. In contrast, nurses in the comparison group will undergo health assessment instruction and discussions using case studies. Questionnaires were administered at baseline, immediately post-intervention, and five weeks thereafter to assess the effects of the two training programs.
Interventions
OTHERNursing health assessment teaching and discussion using humanoid diagrams
The experimental group will receive the nursing health assessment teaching for 50 minutes and discussion using humanoid diagrams for 40 minutes to learn comprehensive nursing assessment.
OTHERNursing health assessment teaching and discussion using case study
The comparison group will receive the nursing health assessment teaching for 50 minutes and discussion using case study for 40 minutes to learn comprehensive nursing assessment.
Sponsors
Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* nurses who enter the hospital for the first time * nurses have not yet gained clinical work experience
Exclusion criteria
* nurses who work in part-time
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive health assessment questionnaire | Baseline, before the intervention(T0) | It is a questionnaire that measures nurses' comprehensive health assessment competency. |
| Confidence scale (C-scale) | Baseline, before the intervention(T0) | It is a scale designed to measure participants' confidence in performing the comprehensive nursing assessment. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Course satisfaction questionnaire | Immediately following after the intervention(T1) | The scale is designed to measure participants' level of satisfaction with the teaching methods. |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactMei Fen Tang, MSN
Outcome results
None listed