Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter: Preceptorship's Presence or Use of Auto-instructional Guide

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Nursing Students
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Auto-instructional guide; Other: Preceptorship

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 35
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • Sao Paulo
    • Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14040902
      • University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Auto-instructional guide; The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.	Other: Auto-instructional guide; After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.
EXPERIMENTAL: Preceptorship; The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.	Other: Preceptorship; After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure	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.	1 day, immediately after the training simulator

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Fernanda TM Braga, PhD, RN, University of Sao Paulo at College of Nursing

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Marmol MT, Braga FT, Garbin LM, Moreli L, dos Santos CB, de Carvalho EC. Central catheter dressing in a simulator: the effects of tutor's assistance or self-learning tutorial. Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2012 Nov-Dec;20(6):1134-41. doi: 10.1590/s0104-11692012000600016. English, Portuguese, Spanish.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2011
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): December 1, 2011
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): December 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 5, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 6, 2012
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): June 7, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): June 11, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 7, 2012
• Last Verified: June 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Preceptorship, simulation, nursing, catheters
• Other Study ID Numbers: CVCdressing