Lab Skills Nursing Education Into Effective Clinical Practice During COVID-19: Elsevier Clinical Skill Platform
Condition: Educational Problems
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing an Elsevier clinical skill
      platform in clinical nursing education.

      1.2. Research hypotheses

        1. Nursing students who assign for the critical care clinical course modules using Elsevier
           clinical skill platform obtain a higher score in the OSCE than who receive clinical Lab
           session on campus.

        2. Nursing students who utilize an Elsevier clinical skill are more satisfied in the
           clinical education journey.
    

Detailed description: 
      A quasi-experimental, two groups, pre-posttest study was carried out in Nursing college, King
      Khalid University, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia.

      2.2 Instruments

        1. Pre-posttest per skill was conducted for both group the Elsevier clinical skill group
           (ECS Group) and traditional Clinical Lab Session group (CLS Group), to assess the
           students' knowledge level before and after receiving each scheduled Lab Module.

        2. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE): The summative OSCE included practical
           stations with an associated written paper for each skill examined. For the practical
           station, Students must pass the practical station (100%), as well as the relevant
           written station (70%) to achieve a pass in that scope of practice skill according to
           Exam policy & Procedure.

        3. Students' perception of Usability and Learning of Elsevier Clinical Skill: included 8
           questions developed by Rowe et al, 2017 categorized into two main themes: 1st theme is
           relevant to the Usability of the platform (4 items) and 2nd theme reflected the Learning
           enhancement while using the platform (4 items). Each item was scored on a three-point
           Likert scale as follows: Strongly agree or agree (3), Neither agree nor disagree (2) and
           Strongly disagree or disagree (1). The overall perceptions of students with both online
           and traditional lab experiences included and score ranged between (1-3) as 1= Much
           better than or better than, 2= About the same as 2, Much worse than or not as good as 3

      2.3 Participants: A convenience sample of all students enrolled in the critical care nursing
      course (n=52) were divided into two groups and random selection was implemented by the
      registration office following the inclusion criteria for all students who were enrolled first
      time receive critical care nursing course. Therefore, two students were withdrawn at the
      beginning of the course. The first group represented the control group the Clinical Lab
      session (25 students), whilst the second group represented the intervention group the
      Elsevier clinical skill (25 students).
    

Intervention name(s): lab session
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): assign students to clinical modules for study the clinical lab scope of practice
Intervention model: Single Group Assignment
Intervention model description: A quasi-experimental, two groups, pre-posttest study was carried out in Nursing college, King Khalid University, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Other
Keywords: Clinical lab session; Elsiever clinical skill; traditional lab session; students satisfaction