Infant Simulator Training to Measure Pediatric Vital Signs (PedVit)

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Simulation Training; Vital Signs

Treatments: Other: simulation training; Other: Classical training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06780761

2022-577

Details and patient eligibility

About

Providing training to nursing students in the field of pediatric care requires having the competencies to care for the pediatric population. However, as the margin of error in pediatric care is quite narrow, nursing students need to undertake a comprehensive laboratory practice before implementing their care skills unsupervised in the pediatric ward. Nursing students can develop their professional skills by gaining the necessary confidence and skills with simulation methods.

Full description

Simulation makes possible for students to feel a pulse, observe chest movements, hear respiration sounds, measure blood pressure, and evaluate results, thus allowing students to practice with concrete examples of various conditions. Hence simulation-based training, one of the important learning techniques, is assumed to help nursing students overcome the difficulties they will experience in measuring the children's vital signs

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having taken the Pediatric Nursing course
• Voluntarily participating in the study

Criteria for exclusion from the study were as follows:

• Failure to complete the research process
• Filling out the necessary forms incompletely

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Students were trained about taking body temperature, heart rate and its characteristics, respiratory rate and saturation, blood pressure, and pain assessment in line with previously created cases on the NOELLE® Maternal Birthing Simulator with Advanced Resuscitation Neonatal M-W45111.

Treatment:

Other: simulation training

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Students were trained on how to measure the five vital signs, which tools to use and why, and normal and abnormal vital sign values by demonstration and explanation on a pediatric nursing manikin.

Treatment:

Other: Classical training