Technical Skills Training in Undergraduate Nursing Students: SimCapture for Skills.

NCT ID: NCT06225401

Last Updated: 2024-05-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 98 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-09-13
• Study Completion Date: 2024-04-22

Brief Summary

Based on the hypothesis that incorporating SimCapture for Skills in the training of technical skills in undergraduate nursing students will increase their competence in the acquisition of technical skills in peer learning, we want to compare the qualification obtained through student self-assessment in the performance of the technique in traditional teaching with classroom teacher versus that obtained with the repetition of the practice with the support of the SimCapture for Skills interface without classroom teacher, as well as the student's perception in terms of satisfaction and self-confidence with both learning spaces. The costs associated with the two types of teaching will also be evaluated.

Detailed Description

The traditional teaching with a teacher in the classroom will be received by all the students enrolled in the course. Among these students, two intervention groups will be assigned. One group will train the skills practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface before the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom (PRE group) and another group will do it afterwards (POST group).

Skills training:

Prebriefing phase: the court of students, before attending the practice with the low fidelity simulator, both in traditional teaching and teaching with SimCapture, will study in the Virtual Campus of the subject, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) in Word format, and will visualize an example video. They will be administered a knowledge test before the practice to evaluate the acquisition of theoretical concepts.

Simulation phase:

In traditional teaching (2h duration) students will practice in pairs, with the low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique. The teacher will give them immediate feedback as they practice the technique (zone 0 of the SimZones model). The ratio is 1 teacher to 8 students.

In the PRE intervention group (before the traditional teaching) students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h). In each classroom there will be 8 students (4 pairs) and one teacher will supervise 2 classrooms.

In the POST intervention group (after the traditional teaching) the students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h). In each classroom there will be 8 students (4 pairs) and one teacher will supervise 2 classrooms.

Conditions

Education, Nursing Students

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Simcapture PRE

In the PRE intervention group (before the traditional teaching) students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Simcapture PRE

Intervention Type: OTHER

Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface before the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom

Simcapture POST

In the POST intervention group (after the traditional teaching) the students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Simcapture POST

Intervention Type: OTHER

Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface after the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom

Interventions

Simcapture PRE

Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface before the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom

Intervention Type: OTHER

Simcapture POST

Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface after the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Students enrolled in the compulsory course of the 2nd year of the nursing degree entitled Estades Clíniques I. This subject contains a module called Clinical Skills in which students learn different technical skills with low fidelity simulators (task-trainers).

Exclusion Criteria

• Not having passed the human anatomy course taught in the 1st year of the nursing degree.
• Not to sign the consent form to participate in the study.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Laerdal Medical

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Barcelona

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Marta Raurell-Torreda

Clinical Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Raurell-Torreda Marta, RN, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Barcelona

Locations

Faculty of Nursing

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Countries

Spain

Related Links

https://laerdal.com/es/information/simcapture-for-skills/

Teaching program for intervention groups

Other Identifiers

Facultat Infermeria

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Simcapture Trial

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id