Teaching cardiovascular assessment.
This article describes a learning module for teaching heart sound recognition and summarizes results of two studies testing the learning module. The module, built around a heart sound simulator, was effective with both graduate nursing students (n = 37) and experienced critical care nurses (n = 40). In each study, recognition of heart sounds improved significantly, and the knowledge gained was retained for at least 2 weeks.
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Champagne
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D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006347:Heart Sounds; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D013664:Teaching Materials / Q000592:standards