NCT07512414

Simulation-based Pediatric Nursing Laboratory Education

The Effects of Simulation-based Pediatric Nursing Laboratory Education on Nursing Students' Clinical Competence, Self-efficacy, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ondokuz Mayıs University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aimed to examine the effect of a simulation-based laboratory program in the pediatric nursing course on students' pediatric nursing competency levels and their levels of clinical anxiety and comfort.

Detailed description

Student nurses experience significant anxiety and concern in clinical practice. Particularly in the clinical application of pediatric nursing courses, students are more worried about harming children or making mistakes when calculating medication dosages. It is essential to enhance students' self-confidence in pediatric nursing, support them in acquiring competencies specific to the field, and foster their teamwork skills. Simulation, an innovative interactive method in nursing education, provides students with a realistic learning environment where they experience real-life situations through scenarios, offering opportunities to develop their cognitive, psychomotor, and behavioral knowledge and skills.

Conditions

• Simulation-based Learning
• Nursing Education Research

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Simulation based education	Introduction, warm-up, and presentation of the training program (30 min.), taking vital signs in infants and children (45 min.), meeting the hygiene needs of newborns/children (oral care, umbilical cord care, body bathing, perineal cleaning) (45 min.), pediatric nursing care skills (taking blood and urine samples from infants and children, oxygen administration) (45 min.), and pediatric medication preparation and administration skills (oral, IM, IV medication preparation and administration) (45 min.). Each laboratory skill for the course is organized as 45 min of training and a 15-min break. Each skill was demonstrated to students by researchers individually on a simulation model according to cases prepared for simulation within the time allocated to it. Subsequently, the procedures within the case were performed piece by piece by different students under the guidance of a researcher, and feedback was provided on any missing or incorrect points.
OTHER	classic education	Introduction, warm-up, and presentation of the training program (30 min.), taking vital signs in infants and children (45 min.), meeting the hygiene needs of newborns/children (oral care, umbilical cord care, body bathing, cleaning the lower body) (45 min.), pediatric nursing care skills (taking blood and urine samples from infants and children, oxygen administration) (45 min.), and pediatric medication preparation and administration skills (oral, IM, IV medication preparation and administration) (45 min.). Each laboratory skill for the course was organized into 45 minutes of instruction and a 15-minute break, using student-centered active learning methods such as lecturing, discussion, video viewing, individual work, question-and-answer sessions, and brainstorming as teaching techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-15
• Primary completion: 2024-04-22
• Completion: 2024-05-06
• First posted: 2026-04-06
• Last updated: 2026-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)