Technical Skills Training in Undergraduate Nursing Students: SimCapture for Skills. (Simcapture)

Study to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of SimCapture for Skills Digital Technology for the Acquisition of Technical Skills Competencies in Peer-to-peer Learning of Undergraduate Nursing Students

Based on the hypothesis that incorporating SimCapture for Skills in the training of technical skills in undergraduate nursing students will increase their competence in the acquisition of technical skills in peer learning, we want to compare the qualification obtained through student self-assessment in the performance of the technique in traditional teaching with classroom teacher versus that obtained with the repetition of the practice with the support of the SimCapture for Skills interface without classroom teacher, as well as the student's perception in terms of satisfaction and self-confidence with both learning spaces. The costs associated with the two types of teaching will also be evaluated.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Education, Nursing Students
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Simcapture PRE; Other: Simcapture POST

Detailed Description

The traditional teaching with a teacher in the classroom will be received by all the students enrolled in the course. Among these students, two intervention groups will be assigned. One group will train the skills practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface before the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom (PRE group) and another group will do it afterwards (POST group).

Skills training:

Prebriefing phase: the court of students, before attending the practice with the low fidelity simulator, both in traditional teaching and teaching with SimCapture, will study in the Virtual Campus of the subject, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) in Word format, and will visualize an example video. They will be administered a knowledge test before the practice to evaluate the acquisition of theoretical concepts.

Simulation phase:

In traditional teaching (2h duration) students will practice in pairs, with the low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique. The teacher will give them immediate feedback as they practice the technique (zone 0 of the SimZones model). The ratio is 1 teacher to 8 students.

In the PRE intervention group (before the traditional teaching) students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h). In each classroom there will be 8 students (4 pairs) and one teacher will supervise 2 classrooms.

In the POST intervention group (after the traditional teaching) the students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h). In each classroom there will be 8 students (4 pairs) and one teacher will supervise 2 classrooms.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 98
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Barcelona
    • Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, 08907
      • Faculty of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students enrolled in the compulsory course of the 2nd year of the nursing degree entitled Estades Clíniques I. This subject contains a module called Clinical Skills in which students learn different technical skills with low fidelity simulators (task-trainers).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having passed the human anatomy course taught in the 1st year of the nursing degree.
• Not to sign the consent form to participate in the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Simcapture PRE; In the PRE intervention group (before the traditional teaching) students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h).	Other: Simcapture PRE; Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface before the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom
Experimental: Simcapture POST; In the POST intervention group (after the traditional teaching) the students will practice in pairs, with the same low fidelity simulator, the blood collection technique without a teacher in the classroom. In the SimCapture for Skills interface, the procedure of how to perform the technique (sequence of actions) will be developed in checklist format for the student to check step by step. They will be provided with the same material and classroom time as in traditional teaching (2h).	Other: Simcapture POST; Practice with the SimCapture for Skills interface after the traditional teaching with the teacher in the classroom

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction and self-confidence acquired by students in both learning spaces.	The Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale will be used to evaluate satisfaction and self-confidence, with 12 Likert-rated items (1 -strongly disagree- to 5 -strongly agree-).	Immediately after learning with Simcapture and immediately after learning with the teacher in the classroom

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Student self-assessment using the technique assessment grid created by the faculty.	Checklist technical skills: Rubric with 76 actions to be performed according to the technical procedure. The % of actions correctly performed over the total (n/76*100) will be analyzed.	During learning with Simcapture or during learning with the teacher in the classroom, through study completion, an average of 3 months

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Economic costs associated with each type of teaching extrapolating the data to the students enrolled in the subject	Economic costs	Immediately after the learning with Simcapture and with teacher
Number of times each student can practice the technique with the low-fidelity simulator in both learning spaces.	Number of practice for student	During learning with Simcapture or during learning with the teacher in the classroom, through study completion, an average of 3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Barcelona
• Collaborators: Laerdal Medical
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Raurell-Torreda Marta, RN, PhD, University of Barcelona

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Teaching program for intervention groups

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 13, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 20, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): April 22, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 31, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 25, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 26, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 9, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2024
• Last Verified: May 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: simulation; nursing; deliberate practice; technical skills; peer to peer learning
• Other Study ID Numbers: Simcapture Trial; Facultat Infermeria (Registry Identifier: Universitat de Barcelona)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: Digital repository
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: January 2024 to March 2024
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: All
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No