title: Teaching critical management skills to senior nursing students: videotaped or interactive hands-on instruction?
abstract: This study examined and compared the effectiveness of videotape training versus hands-on instruction in preparing senior nursing students to respond to emergency clinical situations. Fourth year nursing students (n=27) were randomly assigned to one of three groups; one group received videotaped instruction, one group engaged in a hands-on experience, and one group, a control, received no instruction. Students were evaluated using a three-station objective structured clinical examination that involved high-fidelity simulations. Differences between the control and the two instructional groups were significant (p = .007); however, there was no significant difference between the two types of instruction. It was concluded that instruction on crisis management with a high-fidelity simulator, using either video or hands-on instruction, can result in a significant improvement in performance.
authors.affiliation: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. baxterp@mcmaster.ca
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baxter
authors.forename: Noori
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akhtar-Danesh
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Landeen
authors.forename: Geoff
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording