THE EFFECTS OF SELF-PACED INSTRUCTION ON PERFORMANCE OF REGISTERED NURSES WORKING IN NURSING HOMES IN MICHIGAN.
Contributors: Wayne State University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: This study was designed to determine the effect of a self-paced instructional training module on nurses' performance in using the nursing process in designing patient care plans. The procedure consisted of gathering profile and perception data, testing subjects' knowledge after training with a posttest. Using the same instruction, nurses were tested again after a two week period to assess their retention of learning.

Using a t-test, a relationship was established between the training program and nurses' performance. Their perceptions which they rated from "good to excellent" in the areas of knowledge and skill level were not substantiated by their test scores.

The study examines age, education, length of time as a registered nurse and time s/he has worked in the facility. When comparing these areas with the nurses' perceptions, no relationship was established between perception of knowledge and actual knowledge. Profile data did not correlate with achievement in the training program.

Positive relationships were established between profile data and perception of writing goals and approaches along with knowledge of patient care plans. Although a relationship was established between nursing process and patient care plan knowledge with nursing process, there was no correlation between these variables and using the nursing process to design patient care plans.

A follow-up to this research would be to measure actual on-the-job performance along with retention of learning. Further investigation of the self-paced instructional module is needed to identify its uses in nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-03, Section: B, page: 0903.

Thesis (ED.D.)--WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0254.