Teaching psychomotor skills in nursing: a randomized control trial Journal Articles

abstract

• 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.

authors

• Love, Barbara
• McAdams, Constance
• Patton, Diane M
• Jean Rankin, E
• Roberts, Jacqueline

status

• published 

publication date

• November 1989

has subject area

• 1110 Nursing (FoR)
• Clinical Competence (MeSH)
• Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate (MeSH)
• Evaluation Studies as Topic (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Nursing (Science Metrix)
• Psychomotor Performance (MeSH)
• Random Allocation (MeSH)

published in

• Journal of Advanced Nursing  Journal

keywords

• Clinical Competence
• Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
• Evaluation Studies as Topic
• Humans
• Psychomotor Performance
• Random Allocation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01485.x

PubMed ID

• 2584544

start page

• 970

end page

• 975

volume

• 14

issue

• 11