title: Teaching psychomotor skills in nursing: a randomized control trial.
abstract: Historically, McMaster University School of Nursing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has utilized self-directed learning methods to teach psychomotor nursing skills to undergraduate nursing students. Second year students, in their post-clinical evaluations indicated a desire for a structured laboratory setting to assist them in acquiring these skills. In response, faculty designed a randomized control trial to compare the effectiveness of teaching psychomotor skills in a structured laboratory setting with self-directed self-taught modules. The results of this study substantiated the hypothesis of no difference between psychomotor skill performance of students who learn in a self-directed manner and those taught in a structured clinical laboratory.
authors.affiliation: McMaster University, School of Nursing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Love
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McAdams
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Patton
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Rankin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011897:Random Allocation