EtkisiTHE EFFECT OF SIMULATION APPLICATIONS ON THE SKILL LEVELS OF STUDENTS

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The objective of this study was to examine the effect of simulation applications on the skills of students regarding the parenteral medications and arterial blood pressure measurement. This quasi-experimental study included 53 first-year students receiving education in Health Services Vocational High School Elderly Care and Dialysis Programs in the school year of 2011-2012. A questionnaire, involving the descriptive characteristics of students, and a skill assessment form were used to collect the data. The theoretical knowledge on parenteral drug applications and the measurement of arterial tension were explained in a classroom and showed the simulation applications in a laboratory. In the first day, it was not made any intervention that was educational/stimulating to students during the first simulation application and it was collected the pre-test data by making observations. In the second day, it was make educational/stimulating interventions about processing steps in which student made a missing/mistake during the simulation applications of same skills. In the third day, it was not made any intervention that was educational/stimulating to students during the simulation application and it was collected the last-test. It was provided that the students made all applications in the laboratory at successive three days in a week. The process steps were marked on a Skills Assessment Form as “did” or “did not”. Data coding and evaluation was performed in SPSS 20.0 software package. Significance level was taken as p 0.05. In the evaluation of data, it was used the percentage distribution for the descriptive properties of students and the comparison of the achieving rates of the process steps before and after training were investigated by using McNemar analysis. The skills of students in both programs concerning the parenteral medications and arterial blood pressure measurement were observed before and after the simulation applications. While 69.8% of the students who participated in the study were female, 30.2% were male; and their age average was 19.44±1.81 years. A statistically significant change was observed in 4 of intradermal procedure steps, 3 of subcutaneous procedure steps, 2 of intramuscular procedure steps and in 4 stages of the arterial blood pressure measurement after the training. It could be asserted that the rate of participating students doing right in most of procedure steps regarding parenteral medications increase and the simulation training enhance their skill levels.

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