Nursing Students' Recognition of and Response to Deteriorating Patients

NCT ID: NCT04063319

Last Updated: 2019-08-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 183 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-08-15
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-16

Brief Summary

The overall aim of this intervention study is to examine the effects of an high-fidelity simulation intervention in undergraduate nursing education developed to identify recognizing and responding to patient deterioration. Half of the participants will receive an intervention with high-fidelity simulation, while the other half will not receive any instructional intervention.

Detailed Description

Simulation-based nursing education is an increasingly used pedagogical approach.

The overall aim of this intervention study is to examine the effects of an high-fidelity simulation intervention developed to identify how recognizing and responding to patient deterioration improves the knowledge and self-confidence of undergraduate nursing students.

Specific aims:

1. To describe and estimate the change in undergraduate nursing students' knowledge and perceived self-confidence after an high-fidelity simulation intervention.

2. To identify the barriers and enablers that may impact on a successful implementation of the high-fidelity simulation intervention.

Half of the participants will receive an intervention with high-fidelity simulation, while the other half will not receive any instructional intervention. All participants will answer a questionnaire developed to measure perceived knowledge and levels of self-confidence pre- and post-intervention or before and after a meeting (control group). Five students and six faculty members will also be interviewed as a part of a process evaluation.

The study is part of a PhD project.

Conditions

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

High-fidelity simulation

The participants in the intervention group will receive an high-fidelity simulation intervention

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

High-fidelity simulation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The set up in the high-fidelity simulation intervention is a deteriorating patient scenario.

Control

The participants in the control group will not receive any instructional intervention

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

High-fidelity simulation

The set up in the high-fidelity simulation intervention is a deteriorating patient scenario.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All undergraduate nursing students at two universities enrolling in a specific course that includes high-fidelity simulation

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Agder

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Eli Andås

Senior Adviser

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mariann Fossum, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Agder

References

Haddeland K, Slettebo A, Fossum M. Enablers of the successful implementation of simulation exercises: a qualitative study among nurse teachers in undergraduate nursing education. BMC Nurs. 2021 Nov 22;20(1):234. doi: 10.1186/s12912-021-00756-3.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 34802428 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

52110

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id