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Title

Teaching Critical Management Skills to Senior Nursing Students: Videotaped or Interactive Hands-On Instruction?

Authors

BAXTER, PAMELA; AKHTAR-DANESH, NOORI; LANDEEN, JANET; NORMAN, GEOFF

Abstract

This study examined and compared the effectiveness of videotape training versus hands-on instruction in preparing senior nursing students to respond to emergency clinical situations. Fourth year nursing students (n == 27) were randomly assigned to one of three groups; one group received video-taped instruction, one group engaged in a hands-on experience, and one group, a control, received no instruction. Students were evaluated using a three-station objective structured clinical examination that involved high-fidelity simulations. Differences between the control and the two instructional groups were significant (p == .007); however, there was no significant difference between the two types of instruction. It was concluded that instruction on crisis management with a high-fidelity simulator, using either video or hands-on instruction, can result in a significant improvement in performance.

Subjects

ONTARIO; TEACHING methods; EVALUATION of teaching; NURSING education; ANALYSIS of variance; EMERGENCY medical services; PROBABILITY theory; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; VIDEO recording; PILOT projects; DATA analysis; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; NATIONAL competency-based educational tests; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EVALUATION

Publication

Nursing Education Perspectives (National League for Nursing), 2012, Vol 33, Issue 2, p106

ISSN

1536-5026

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.5480/1536-5026-33.2.106