Web-based data collection in midwifery clinical education.
A Web-based computerized database for clinical data collection use by midwifery and nurse practitioner students was developed and revised over 2 years. The database provided insight into the number and diversity of clients seen as well as the student's level of autonomy. Students documented a selected set of data elements sensitive to nursing and midwifery care for all client encounters. Analysis of the clinical encounter data entered by nurse-midwifery students in the Antepartum Care course during two winter semesters included 1,417 client encounters. Results of the analyses are presented as well as educational and clinical issues involved in the development and maintenance of the database. Future work includes refining the current database, expanding the data set to include the ACNM nurse-midwifery clinical data sets for antepartum and intrapartum care, and pilot testing the Web-based version in Fall 2003 by using wireless, handheld technology.
Walker
Deborah S
DS
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
Pohl
Joanne M
JM
D003162:Competency-Based Education; D003625:Data Collection; D003628:Database Management Systems; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008824:Michigan; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009736:Nursing Process; D009819:Office Visits; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011247:Pregnancy; D012579:Schools, Nursing