NCT01614314

Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter: Preceptorship's Presence or Use of Auto-instructional Guide

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Nursing Students

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Preceptorship	After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour.
OTHER	Auto-instructional guide	After attending a lecture and a video on the dressing of the tunneled central venous catheter, the subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2012-06-07
• Last updated: 2012-06-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil