Effect of screen-based computer simulation on knowledge and skill in nursing students' learning of preoperative and postoperative care management: a randomized controlled study.
Screen-based computer simulations are considered a method of skill teaching in health education. This study examined the effect of screen-based computer simulation on knowledge, skill, and the clinical decision-making process in teaching preoperative and postoperative care management to second-year students in an undergraduate school of nursing. It is a randomized controlled study. The study sample was composed of 82 students. They received education in screen-based computer simulation (n = 41) and skill laboratories (n = 41). Three instruments were used: a preoperative and postoperative care management cognitive level assessment test, skill control lists of preoperative and postoperative care management, and the Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Scale. There was not a significant difference between the students' posteducation knowledge levels (P = .421), practical deep breathing and coughing exercise education skills (P = .867), or clinical decision-making scale total and subscale scores (P = .065). However, a significant difference was found between the admission of the patient in the surgical clinic after surgery skill scores of the students (P = .04). Education provided in the screen-based computer simulation laboratory was equivalent to that provided in the skill laboratory.
Faculty of Nursing, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. aylin_durmaz@yahoo.com
Aylin
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Durmaz
Aklime
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Dicle
Emre
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Cakan
Şen
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Cakir
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000193:education; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000193:education; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult