title: Enhancing nursing students' skills in vital signs assessment by using multimedia computer-assisted learning with integrated content of anatomy and physiology.
abstract: Due to constraints of increasing number of nursing students and a disproportionate shortfall of faculty members in nursing schools, it was necessary to supplement traditional lecture or lecture-demonstration with on-line multimedia materials and/or multimedia compact discs for enhancing learning. The authors have developed a computer-assisted learning (CAL) multimedia on vital signs with animation and audio features for teaching in the classroom based on the 5Es inquiry cycle. When the CAL was tried on second-year undergraduates in two comparable schools, all groups of students gained significantly higher performance skills regardless of whether the groups were subjected to CAL/lecture or CAL/lecture/demonstration. However, they did not gain in factual knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Innovation and Development of Learning Process, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Phayathai, Rajathevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
authors.forename: Chularuk
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kaveevivitchai
authors.forename: Benchaporn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chuengkriankrai
authors.forename: Yuwadee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luecha
authors.forename: Rujires
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thanooruk
authors.forename: Bhinyo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Panijpan
authors.forename: Pintip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruenwongsa
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019212:Multimedia / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010827:Physiology / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013785:Thailand; D055815:Young Adult