The Effect of Clinical Teammate Educator in Compare with Workshop Education on Nursing Staff’s Knowledge about Arterial Blood Gases in Firoozgar Hospital

Abstract
Aims: The sufficient knowledge of nurses has an important role in increase of nurses’ care
in the critical units. Work-centered learning or learning in work place is one of the ways
which is considered recently in the education of the professions related to Medicine and
Nursing. This study aimed to compare two clinical teammate educator and workshop
methods in the interpretation of arterial blood gases to the nurses working in the
intensive care units.
Methods: In this quasi experimental study, from Firoozgar Tehran hospital intensive care
units 3 units were randomly selected as number one experimental unit (clinical teammate
method) and number 2 and 3 experimental units (workshop method) in 2013. The
samples included nurses working in these units selected with achievable sampling. At the
beginning and the end of the training courses, the knowledge of nurses in the
interpretation of arterial blood gases in both groups was measured using a questionnaire.
Data were analyzed by SPSS 19 software using descriptive and inferential statistics
(Independent-T, exact Fisher and pair-T tests).
Findings: There was a significant difference between before and after Nurses’ mean
scores in workshop method group but there was no statistically significant difference
between before and after nurses’ mean scores in clinical teammate group.
Conclusion: Using workshop method is more appropriate compared with clinical
teammate method to train the interpretation of arterial blood gases to the nurses of the
critical care units.
Keywords
Education [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68004493];
Intensive Care Units [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68007362];
Blood Gas Analysis [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68001784]