Effects of Constructive Debriefing on Procedural Skills and Satisfaction of Nursing Students in Low Fidelity Context. A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purposes: This study was set out to measure the effectiveness of constructive debriefing on procedural skills and satisfaction of nursing students in the low-fidelity context in comparison to traditional debriefing.

Method: The randomized controlled (Parallel double blinded) trial design was used.

Participant: Out of 51 approached, 34 students were selected from the list of participants by a data collector using simple random sampling technique. Following, block randomization was applied using Microsoft Excel to create two equivalent (n=17) groups i.e. experimental and non-experimental.

Setting: The study was conducted in private college of nursing Islamabad Pakistan Intervention: The experimental group received constructive debriefing and non-experimental group received the traditional debriefing. The data were collected using suctioning, sterile dressing skills checklist, and debriefing reflection subscale of Satisfaction with Simulation Experience Scale.