Effect of a video on developing skills in undergraduate nursing students for the management of totally implantable central venous access ports.
BACKGROUND
Handling Totally Implantable Access Ports (TIAP) is a nursing procedure that requires skill and knowledge to avoid adverse events. No studies addressing this procedure with undergraduate students were identified prior to this study. Communication technologies, such as videos, have been increasingly adopted in the teaching of nursing and have contributed to the acquisition of competencies for clinical performance.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effect of a video on the puncture and heparinization of TIAP in the development of cognitive and technical competencies of undergraduate nursing students.


METHODS
Quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design.


RESULTS
24 individuals participated in the study. Anxiety scores were kept at levels 1 and 2 in the pretest and posttest. In relation to cognitive knowledge concerning the procedure, the proportion of correct answers in the pretest was 0.14 (SD=0.12) and 0.90 in the posttest (SD=0.05). After watching the video, the average score obtained by the participants in the mock session was 27.20.


CONCLUSIONS
The use of an educational video with a simulation of puncture and heparinization of TIAP proved to be a strategy that increased both cognitive and technical knowledge. This strategy is viable in the teaching-learning process and is useful as a support tool for professors and for the development of undergraduate nursing students.
University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, College of Nursing, General and Specialized Nursing Department, Brazil. arianecardosorp@yahoo.com.br
Ariane F
AF
Cardoso
Lucimara
L
Moreli
Fernanda T M M
FT
Braga
Christiane I
CI
Vasques
Claudia B
CB
Santos
Emilia C
EC
Carvalho
D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000451:nursing*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D014743:Videotape Recording; D055815:Young Adult