The Effect of Web-Based Preoperative and Postoperative Patient Care Education on Nursing Students

Abstract

This study examined the effect of Web-based preoperative and postoperative patient care education among undergraduate nursing students. This was an experimental, randomized controlled study. The study included 305 nursing students (experimental group: n = 155, control group: n = 150), who were assessed with the following instruments: the Preoperative and Postoperative Care Knowledge Test, Preoperative and Postoperative Care Skill Control List, Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Scale, and Nursing Student Clinical Performance Evaluation Scale. t Tests and χ 2 tests were used to evaluate the data. There was no statistically significant difference between the students' posttest knowledge levels, clinical performance assessment, or clinical decision-making scores. The experimental group was found to perform the skills of “check patient's documents and prophylactic antibiotics when going to surgery” (χ 2 = 4.88; P = .02), “controls the surgical safety checklist (before surgery) before going to surgery” (χ 2 = 10.41; P = .00), and “observes surgical site/dressing (χ 2 = 7.77; P = .00)” at a statistically significantly higher level. The education provided in the Web-based education was equivalent to that provided in traditional education. Thus, Web-based education appears to be a useful tool to educate student nurses in preoperative and postoperative patient care.

Factors Affecting Nursing and Midwifery Students Knowledge Regarding Preoperative Nursing Care

“…Moreover, the clinical practice of students in surgical units could increase their level of knowledge. Durmaz Edeer et al 3 reported that clinical practice can improve learning abilities. However, comparing the preoperative care competence of nursing and midwifery students is difficult because of relatively limited studies in this area.…”

“… 2 Preoperative care aims to identify risk factors that could lead to complications for patients after surgery. 3 Patients should be prepared physically, physiologically, and emotionally, and spiritually for surgery to have a positive post‑operative recovery. 4 It was found that preoperative patients with high religiosity levels had lower levels of anxiety.…”

Care intervention on psychological outcomes among patients admitted to intensive care unit: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

“…With the medium methodological quality, preoperative education was found to be helpful in improving the prognosis of patients undergoing cardiac surgery [ 28 ] because it may enhance patients’ knowledge; besides, meeting their information needs could also mitigate their distress [ 54 ]. However, our umbrella-shaped review shows that information intervention cannot effectively reduce patients’ transfer anxiety, which may be related to our use of quantitative rather than qualitative methods to investigate transfer anxiety.…”

Care intervention on psychological outcomes among patients admitted to intensive care unit: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

“…Researches showed that the uncertainty accounted for 30.2% of the factors that cause family members' transfer anxiety, and providing information was a key factor in reducing uncertainty and anxiety [38,39]. Preoperative education was also helpful to improve the prognosis of patients undergoing cardiac surgery [31] because it may enhance patients' knowledge; besides, meeting their information needs could also mitigate their distress [40]. However, our umbrella-shaped review shows that information intervention cannot effectively reduce patients' transfer anxiety, which may be related to our use of quantitative rather than qualitative methods to investigate transfer anxiety.…”