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Teaching psychomotor skills in nursing: a randomized control trial
Author(s) -
Love Barbara,
McAdams Constance,
Patton Diane M.,
Jean Rankin E.,
Roberts Jacqueline
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01485.x
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , randomized controlled trial , psychology , nursing , medical education , medicine , cognition , surgery , neuroscience
Historically, McMaster University School of Nursing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has utilized self‐directed learning methods to teach psychomotor nursing skills to undergraduate nursing students. Second year students, in their postclinical evaluations indicated a desire for a structured laboratory setting to assist them in acquiring these skills. In response, faculty designed a randomized control trial to compare the effectiveness of teaching psychomotor skills in a structured laboratory setting with self‐directed self‐taught modules. The results of this study substantiated the hypothesis of no difference between psychomotor skill performance of students who learn in a self‐directed manner and those taught in a structured clinical laboratory.