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The Effectiveness of a Mobile Application for Teaching Clinical Nursing Skill at a Higher Education Institution in Chenzhou, China
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Online and offline blended teaching and Traditional teaching for Nursing Education. Completed, enrolled 166 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The general objective of this study is to validate a mobile application as a pedagogical tool compared to in-person nursing educational instruction for teaching clinical nursing skills and evaluate the effectiveness of clinical nursing skills for nursing students. The study design is a basic experimental study design, randomized control trial (RCT) design; the dependent variables measured in this study are skills, self-directed learning ability, online academic emotion, and satisfaction by using pre- and posttests; two groups are participating in this study; experimental and control group. The control group treatment is traditional face-to-face teaching, and the experimental group intervention is online and offline blended learning based on the Chaoxing app. The study process includes four steps： 1. To develop surgical nursing practical online courses using Chaoxing mobile app. 2. Perform the pre-test (basic sociological information, self-directed learning ability surveys ). 3. Nursing clinical practice skills education intervention. 4. Perform a posttest (assess practical skills, self-directed learning ability, online academic emotion, and satisfaction).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The Chaoxing app is an interventional tool, a professional mobile learning platform for smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile terminals. They will learn the online course on the Chaoxing app and carry out offline classroom learning. The online courses focus on teaching design to make teaching PowerPoint, teaching videos, micro-lessons, homework library, and so on.
The researchers will implement the traditional teaching intervention of a surgical nursing practice course to the control group, and the teacher will demonstrate the operation procedure to the students face to face offline, and the students will practice. The whole intervention time is two months.