Teaching psychomotor skills in nursing: a randomized control trial.
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.
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McMaster University, School of Nursing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Roberts
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D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011897:Random Allocation