Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing Students

Treatments: Other: Preceptorship; Other: Auto-instructional guide

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01614314

CVCdressing

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of nursing undergraduates in dressing of tunneled central venous access in the simulator, according to the aid of a preceptorship or an auto-instructional guide.

Full description

The simulation facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills and decision-making required for clinical practice. Mentoring has been employed and valued as pedagogical process qualifier.

The hypothesis of this study was that students who trained with the assistance of a preceptorship had better practical performance when compared to students who used an auto-instructional guide.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• students regularly enrolled in the last year of the undergraduate nursing program of a public university

Exclusion criteria

• students who did not comply with any of the study's phases
• students who presented performance > 70% in the pretest

Trial design

35 participants in 2 patient groups

Auto-instructional guide

Active Comparator group

Description:

The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.

Treatment:

Other: Auto-instructional guide

Preceptorship

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.

Treatment:

Other: Preceptorship