Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Nursing Students Clinical Trial

Official title:

Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter: Preceptorship's Presence or Use of Auto-instructional Guide

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01614314
• Other study ID #: CVCdressing
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 5, 2012
• Last updated: June 7, 2012
• Start date: August 2011
• Est. completion date: December 2011

Study information

• Verified date: June 2012
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of nursing undergraduates in dressing of tunneled central venous access in the simulator, according to the aid of a preceptorship or an auto-instructional guide.

Description:

The simulation facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills and decision-making required for clinical practice. Mentoring has been employed and valued as pedagogical process qualifier.

The hypothesis of this study was that students who trained with the assistance of a preceptorship had better practical performance when compared to students who used an auto-instructional guide.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: December 2011
• Est. primary completion date: December 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• students regularly enrolled in the last year of the undergraduate nursing program of a public university

Exclusion Criteria:

• students who did not comply with any of the study's phases

• students who presented performance > 70% in the pretest

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nursing Students

Intervention

Other:
• Preceptorship
After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.
• Auto-instructional guide
After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing	Ribeirao Preto	Sao Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure	The practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure of each student was analyzed according to a list of 28 steps of procedure, including the preparation of environment and material, antisepsis, curative application and recording (score: 0 to 35). The list of items used to analyze the steps of the catheter dressing procedure were face and content validated by five experts working in the oncology field.	1 day, immediately after the training simulator	No