Lab Skills Nursing Education Into Effective Clinical Practice During COVID-19: Elsevier Clinical Skill Platform

Educational Problems Clinical Trial

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Official title:

An Authentic Solution to Translate Lab Skills Nursing Education Into Effective Clinical Practice During COVID-19: Elsevier Clinical Skill Platform

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04977921
• Other study ID #: KKU2341751442
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 17, 2021
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: July 2021
• Source: Beni-Suef University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing an Elsevier clinical skill platform in clinical nursing education.

1.2. Research hypotheses

1. Nursing students who assign for the critical care clinical course modules using Elsevier clinical skill platform obtain a higher score in the OSCE than who receive clinical Lab session on campus.

2. Nursing students who utilize an Elsevier clinical skill are more satisfied in the clinical education journey.

Description:

A quasi-experimental, two groups, pre-posttest study was carried out in Nursing college, King Khalid University, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia.

2.2 Instruments

1. Pre-posttest per skill was conducted for both group the Elsevier clinical skill group (ECS Group) and traditional Clinical Lab Session group (CLS Group), to assess the students' knowledge level before and after receiving each scheduled Lab Module.

2. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE): The summative OSCE included practical stations with an associated written paper for each skill examined. For the practical station, Students must pass the practical station (100%), as well as the relevant written station (70%) to achieve a pass in that scope of practice skill according to Exam policy & Procedure.

3. Students' perception of Usability and Learning of Elsevier Clinical Skill: included 8 questions developed by Rowe et al, 2017 categorized into two main themes: 1st theme is relevant to the Usability of the platform (4 items) and 2nd theme reflected the Learning enhancement while using the platform (4 items). Each item was scored on a three-point Likert scale as follows: Strongly agree or agree (3), Neither agree nor disagree (2) and Strongly disagree or disagree (1). The overall perceptions of students with both online and traditional lab experiences included and score ranged between (1-3) as 1= Much better than or better than, 2= About the same as 2, Much worse than or not as good as 3

2.3 Participants: A convenience sample of all students enrolled in the critical care nursing course (n=52) were divided into two groups and random selection was implemented by the registration office following the inclusion criteria for all students who were enrolled first time receive critical care nursing course. Therefore, two students were withdrawn at the beginning of the course. The first group represented the control group the Clinical Lab session (25 students), whilst the second group represented the intervention group the Elsevier clinical skill (25 students).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: May 15, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 20 Years to 22 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be passed all prerequisite nursing courses

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling to participate

• Request to use traditional lab session

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Educational Problems

Intervention

Other:
• lab session
assign students to clinical modules for study the clinical lab scope of practice

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Saudi Arabia	Nursing Faculty	Abha

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Beni-Suef University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Saudi Arabia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Improve student's performance per clinical lab session	1. Pre-posttest per skill was conducted for both group the Elsevier clinical skill group (ECS Group) and traditional Clinical Lab Session group (CLS Group), to assess the students' knowledge level before and after receiving each scheduled Lab Module.	13 lab session-13 weeks
Primary	evaluate effectiveness of teaching pedagogy	2. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE): The summative OSCE included practical stations with an associated written paper for each skill examined. For the practical station, Students must pass the practical station (100%), as well as the relevant written station (70%) to achieve a pass in that scope of practice skill according to Exam policy & Procedure.	Week 14
Secondary	assess students' perception of Usability and Learning of Elsevier Clinical Skill:	Included 8 questions 1st theme is relevant to the Usability of the platform (4 items) and 2nd theme reflected the Learning enhancement while using the platform (4 items). Each item was scored on a three-point Likert scale as follows: Strongly agree or agree (3), Neither agree nor disagree (2) and strongly disagree or disagree (1). The overall perceptions of students with both online and traditional lab experiences included and score ranged between (1-3) as 1= Much better than or better than, 2= About the same as 2, Much worse than or not as good as 3	up to 15 weeks