Midwifery Students' Performance Before and After Teaching Fundamentals of Documentation

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Documentation Skill

Treatments: Other: lecture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01694888

Documentation Skill

Details and patient eligibility

About

Midwives are responsible for documenting and keeping care facts in midwifery departments. Inaccurate documentation or even minute error in reporting may lead to burdensome responsibility for midwives. This study has been conducted aimed to compare midwifery students' performance before and after teaching fundamentals of documentation. In this quasi-experimental study, 28 midwifery students were participated. Data were collected by a questionnaire including a. demographic data and b. Scenarios (1) and (2) of an imaginary patient with physician order and a checklist contain 11 elements of documentation

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 22 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• midwifery students studying at mashhad school of nursing and midwifery

Exclusion criteria

• any other discipline

Trial design

27 participants in 1 patient group

midwifery students

Experimental group

Description:

all midwifery students studying at last term (except one who was absent) (27) in Mashhad school of nursing and midwifery in April 2011

Treatment:

Other: lecture