The Effectiveness of Various Teaching Methods to Enhance the Comprehensive Nursing Assessment Skills of New Nurses

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Competence
• Interventions: Other: Nursing health assessment teaching and discussion using case study; Other: Nursing health assessment teaching and discussion using humanoid diagrams

• Registration Number: NCT06318468
• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

Brief Summary

This study is going to compare different teaching strategies for improving newly recruited nurses' comprehensive nursing assessment skills.

Detailed Description

Comprehensive nursing assessment is imperative for newly recruited nursing personnel to holistically identify patients' issues, thereby ensuring the provision of high-quality care. This study employs a randomized controlled trial design and will be conducted at a medical center in northern Taiwan. Eligibility criteria for participation require individuals to be new nurses entering the hospital for the first time and lacking prior clinical work experience. Those working part-time will be excluded from the study. A projected enrollment of 60-80 participants includes 30-40 nurses in both the intervention and comparison groups. Nurses assigned to the intervention group will receive nursing health assessment instruction and engage in discussions utilizing humanoid diagrams. In contrast, nurses in the comparison group will undergo health assessment instruction and discussions using case studies. Questionnaires were administered at baseline, immediately post-intervention, and five weeks thereafter to assess the effects of the two training programs.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2023-09
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-03-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-03-12
• Study First Posted: 2024-03-19
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-19
• Study Start: 2024-04
• Primary Completion: 2024-10-31
• Study Completion: 2024-10-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

• nurses who enter the hospital for the first time
• nurses have not yet gained clinical work experience

Exclusion Criteria

• nurses who work in part-time

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
comparison group	Nursing health assessment teaching and discussion using case study	The comparison group will receive health assessment teaching for 50 minutes and discussion using case discussion for 40 minutes to learn comprehensive nursing assessment.
Humanoid diagrams training program	Nursing health assessment teaching and discussion using humanoid diagrams	The experimental group will receive the nursing health assessment teaching for 50 minutes and discussion using humanoid diagrams for 40 minutes to learn comprehensive nursing assessment.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Comprehensive health assessment questionnaire	Five weeks after the intervention(T2)	It is a questionnaire that measures nurses' comprehensive health assessment competency.
Confidence scale (C-scale)	Five weeks after the intervention(T2)	It is a scale designed to measure participants' confidence in performing the comprehensive nursing assessment.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Course satisfaction questionnaire	Immediately following after the intervention(T1)	The scale is designed to measure participants' level of satisfaction with the teaching methods.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital-commissioned by Taipei Medical University / Taipei Taiwan; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan