A Blended Learning to Enhance Communication Skill Competence and Self-Efficacy of Nursing Students in Clinical Handovers

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Communication; Nursing

Treatments: Other: Waitlist control group; Other: A Blended Learning Programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05150067

UW 19-622

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to examine the efficacy of a blended learning programme in enhancing the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of final-year nursing students in conducting clinical handovers.

Full description

A clinical handover refers to the process of transferring the relevant information and facilitating continuity of patient care from one healthcare provider to another. It is an essential nursing practice that ensures patient safety. The information transmitted during the handover must be clear, concise and systematic to facilitate the provision of continuous patient care. Ambiguous communication and unsystematically transmitted information can often impede the clarity of ideas, result in the omission of important patient information and delay medical treatment, consequently endangering the safety of patients. Nursing students and newly graduated nurses often struggle with clinical handovers due to a lack of communication skill competence and self-efficacy in performing this practice.

Blended learning programmes (BLPs) are commonly used as constructivist pedagogical approaches in nursing education. BLPs have been used successfully to teach theoretical courses and psychomotor skills in nursing education and have been proven to benefit the knowledge, self-efficacy, motivation, attitudes and perceived competence of students. However, no studies that examine the efficiency of BLPs in enhancing the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of nursing students in conducting clinical handovers have been found. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the efficacy of BLP in improving the communication skill competence and self-efficacy of nursing students in conducting clinical handovers.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• were Hong Kong residents who could speak Cantonese and read Chinese and English
• were aged at least 18 years
• had not previously enrolled in a clinical handover training programme.

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants in the experimental group received a blended learning programme with face-to-face training and an online module on handover practice.

Treatment:

Other: A Blended Learning Programme

waitlist control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The participants in the waitlist control group received the same face-to-face training workshop as the experimental group. However, these participants were invited to access the online module only after data collection was completed.

Treatment:

Other: Waitlist control group