Developing Standards Skill According to the Learning Curves

August 25, 2015 updated by: Seyedreza Mazloum, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Developing Standards for Skill Performance Times in Nursing Clinical Education Program According to Learning Curve

The aim of the current study was to develop a criterion in terms of the number of sessions required to achieve mastery in DCS based on the learning curve assessment in real clinical situation.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

57

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Nursing and midwifery students in Mashhad.
  • Before the relevant skills in teaching nursing for the theoretical and practical training
  • Employment as student work , etc., is not nursing .

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Skills into the clinical environment is not done , or a maximum of three times ( contact skills intravenous line , dry dressing , intramuscular injection ) has done .

Defects or diseases that cause skills to do independent problem , no . ( At the discretion of the instructor )

No sign student proficiency , skills required in this section or elsewhere has done .

Student of psychological ( lack of acute stress , etc.) is ready to perform skills . ( At the discretion of the instructor )

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Basic Science
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: clinical education
the researcher used the checklist to assess the student's mastery level skill l while changing a skill and recorded his score on the learning curve based on a 1 (no mastery) to 100 (complete mastery) scoring scale. This procedure continued until the learning curve reached to a plateau state, i.e. either reaching to the full mastery score (100) or revealing no significant change in three subsequent sessions. All the students achieved mastery (the plateau state) after performing the task for at most ten times.
Other: Providing clinical skills conditions

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
level of expertise nursing student
Time Frame: in training course (4month follow up)
The checklist contained steps for performance skill rated on a 1 to 3 scoring scale (1= The researcher used the checklist to assess the student's mastery level while changing a skill and recorded his score on the learning curve based on a 0 (no mastery) to 100 (complete mastery) scoring scale.Required Standard frequency for skills performance based on learning curve plateau, achievement of 75% of expertise and, 75 percent of students who achieved 75% of expertise in the following skills.
in training course (4month follow up)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

  • Miri K, Malekzade J, Davoudi N, Mazloum S. How many Times of Intramuscular Injec-tion and Intravenous Catheter Insertion is Essential for Learning? Developing Standards according to the Learning Curves. Iranian Journal of Medical Education. 2013; 13 (6) :457-469

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

May 1, 2009

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2010

Study Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 14, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 25, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

August 26, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

August 26, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 25, 2015

Last Verified

August 1, 2015

More Information

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Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 88490

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