Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Nursing Students
• Interventions: Other: Auto-instructional guide; Other: Preceptorship

• Registration Number: NCT01614314
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-08
• Primary Completion: 2011-12
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Status Verified: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-06-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-06-06
• Study First Posted: 2012-06-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-06-07
• Last Update Posted: 2012-06-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 35

Inclusion Criteria

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

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Exclusion Criteria

• students who did not comply with any of the study's phases
• students who presented performance > 70% in the pretest

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Auto-instructional guide	Auto-instructional guide	The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.
Preceptorship	Preceptorship	The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure	1 day, immediately after the training simulator	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing; 🇧🇷 Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil