Increasing competence in wound care: A cross-sectional study to evaluate use of a virtual patient by undergraduate student nurses

Redmond, Catherine; Hardie, Philip; Davies, Carmel; Cornally, Deirdre; Daly, Orla; O’Sullivan, Cliona

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102774

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“…It would be useful to obtain different scenarios that cover all curricular needs of these students (i.e critical care simulations). As for item 8, it is true that VS is related to the development of non-technical skills ( Redmond et al, 2020 ). It seems that it is necessary to add an activity that allows the development of technical skills at a distance, to complement the acquisition of skills.…”

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Virtual Simulation for Last-Year Nursing Graduate Students in Times of Covid-19: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Zaragoza-García

Ortuño-Soriano

Posada-Moreno

et al. 2021

Clinical Simulation in Nursing

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to adapt university health-education. Virtual simulation has been proposed to be a suitable tool. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted on nursing students in the final year. The virtual simulation platform vSim® was used. Improvements in knowledge, skills during simulation, satisfaction and self-confidence obtained through the training provided were analyzed, as well as satisfaction with the platform. Results: Pre-post training knowledge improved. Skill acquisition improved between the first and last attempts in all cases. The levels of self-confidence and satisfaction with the training and the platform used were high. Conclusions: The vSim® was a useful solution during the pandemic. Knowledge improved and high self-confidence was obtained.

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Virtual Simulation for Last-Year Nursing Graduate Students in Times of Covid-19: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Zaragoza-García

Ortuño-Soriano

Posada-Moreno

et al. 2021

Clinical Simulation in Nursing

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“…Even though simulation has been used a lot in health‐care education, 39 its use in nursing research, especially in wound‐care research, is limited. In a previous study by Moura and Larcher Caliri, 40 the simulation was used in an evaluation of student nurses' competence in pressure ulcer risk assessment, with promising results; and in the study by Redmond et al, 41 a virtual patient was used in wound‐care education for student nurses. Nevertheless, no previous studies using a similar type of wound‐care simulation as a research method were found for comparison, which can be explained by the complexity of simulation as a method.…”

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The development and testing of the C/WoundComp instrument for assessing chronic wound‐care competence in student nurses and podiatrists

Kielo-Viljamaa

Suhonen

Ahtiala

et al. 2020

International Wound Journal

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The purpose of this study was to describe the level of chronic wound‐care competence among graduating student nurses and student podiatrists in comparison with that of professionals and to develop and test a new instrument (the C/WoundComp) that assesses both theoretical and practical competence in chronic wound care as well as attitudes towards wound care. The data (N = 135) were collected in 2019 from four groups (1): graduating student nurses (n = 44) (2); graduating student podiatrists (n = 28) (3); registered nurses (n = 54); and (4) podiatrists (n = 9). The data were analysed using statistical analysis. According to the results, the students' total mean competence score was 62%. Their mean score for theoretical competence was 67%, and for practical competence, it was 52%. The students' competence level was statistically significantly lower than that of the professionals (P < .0001), but the students showed a positive attitude towards chronic wound care. The instrument demonstrated preliminary validity and reliability, but this warrants further testing. This study provides new knowledge about student nurses' and student podiatrists' competence in chronic wound care, suggesting that their theoretical and practical competence is limited. In addition, it provides information on different methods of assessing competence and how they can be combined.

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“…The training was performed upon the readiness of the students with an additional training period of 7 days, resulting in the student improvement on their practical skills. Moreover, the latex wound model training was similar to simulation, resulting in the confidence of the students in practice [11,16,[22][23][24][25][26] and the ability of the students to perform several nursing practices in the virtual situation until they were confident before nursing the patients. The environment is one of the factors that help students to learn and develop students quality [27] and influence learning in terms of motivation and enthusiasm.…”

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The effectiveness of latex wound model on wound dressing skill of the nursing students

Bannaasan¹

2020

JNEP

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Wound dressing is a skill which must be able to be performed by all nurses. If the practical ability of a nurse is weak, it will affect the quality of patient care. The objective of this research is to study the effectiveness of the latex wound model for wound dressing training on wound dressing skills of the nursing student. The latex wound model is a device used in practice which is made from rubber. The samples are the 60 second-year nursing students. Simple random sampling was applied in the selection of samples to be an experimental group and a control group for 30 persons per group. The latex wound model was provided to the experimental group for wound dressing skill training at the dormitory for a seven day period. A personal data questionnaire, wet dressing skill evaluation form, and dry dressing skill evaluation form were used for data collection. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Mann-Whitney U Test. The results indicated that: 1) the mean score of wet dressing skill and dry dressing skill after the intervention were significantly higher than before the intervention (p < .05); 2) the mean score of wet dressing skill and dry dressing skill of the experimental group were higher than that of the control group, who was given the explanation of research procedures and the use of latex wound model, at statistical significance (p < .05). The findings imply that the use of the latex wound model for wound dressing training could enhance the wound dressing practical skill of the nursing students.

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Increasing competence in wound care: A cross-sectional study to evaluate use of a virtual patient by undergraduate student nurses

Cited by 21 publications

References 24 publications

Virtual Simulation for Last-Year Nursing Graduate Students in Times of Covid-19: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Virtual Simulation for Last-Year Nursing Graduate Students in Times of Covid-19: A Quasi-Experimental Study

The development and testing of the C/WoundComp instrument for assessing chronic wound‐care competence in student nurses and podiatrists

The effectiveness of latex wound model on wound dressing skill of the nursing students

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