Dressing of Tunneled Central Venous Catheter

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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
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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.

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

Conditions
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Nursing Students

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Preceptorship
* Other: Auto-instructional guide


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: students regularly enrolled in the last year of the undergraduate nursing program of a public university Exclusion Criteria: students who did not comply with any of the study's phases students who presented performance > 70% in the pretest

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Auto-instructional guide<br>The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of an auto-instructional guide, lasting one hour. | Other: Auto-instructional guide<br>* 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.<br>|
| Experimental: Preceptorship<br>The subjects performed the procedure on a manikin simulator, with the aid of a nurse preceptorship, lasting one hour. | Other: Preceptorship<br>* 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.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure | The practical performance in carrying out dressing procedure of each student was analyzed according to a list of 28 steps of procedure, including the preparation of environment and material, antisepsis, curative application and recording (score: 0 to 35). The list of items used to analyze the steps of the catheter dressing procedure were face and content validated by five experts working in the oncology field. | 1 day, immediately after the training simulator | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Preceptorship, simulation, nursing, catheters