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NCT Number: NCT06780761

Infant Simulator Training to Measure Pediatric Vital Signs

Providing training to nursing students in the field of pediatric care requires having the competencies to care for the pediatric population. However, as the margin of error in pediatric care is quite narrow, nursing students need to undertake a comprehensive laboratory practice before implementing their care skills unsupervised in the pediatric ward. Nursing students can develop their professional skills by gaining the necessary confidence and skills with simulation methods.

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Key information

Conditions

Vital Signs Simulation Training

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Black Sea Zone

Samsun, 55100, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

Simulation makes possible for students to feel a pulse, observe chest movements, hear respiration sounds, measure blood pressure, and evaluate results, thus allowing students to practice with concrete examples of various conditions. Hence simulation-based training, one of the important learning techniques, is assumed to help nursing students overcome the difficulties they will experience in measuring the children's vital signs

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Having taken the Pediatric Nursing course
  • Voluntarily participating in the study

Criteria for exclusion from the study were as follows:

  • Failure to complete the research process
  • Filling out the necessary forms incompletely

Treatment and study plan

Simulation Training

Other

The author further demonstrated taking body temperature, heart rate and its characteristics, respiratory rate and saturation, blood pressure and pain assessment in line with previously created cases on the NOELLE® Maternal Birthing Simulator with Advanced Resuscitation Neonatal M-W45111 to the students deployed in the intervention group. Furthermore the students were allowed to work individually on the infant simulator, their questions were answered and feedback was given to them. Students were also offered free time to work on the infant simulator. One week after the training, before proceeding with the clinical practice, the students were individually assessed on measuring the vital signs by 2 different observers and were administered the post-tests.

Classical training

Other

Before proceeding with the clinical practice, the students deployed in the control group were trained on how to measure the five vital signs, which tools to use and why, and normal and abnormal vital sign values by demonstration and explaining on a pediatric nursing manikin. Then, volunteering students were given the opportunity to develop their vital sign measurement skills on a pediatric nursing manikin and feedback was provided to them. One week after the training, all students were individually assessed on measuring the vital signs by 2 different independent observers on the simulator neonatal used in the intervention group and they were administered the post-tests.

Primary outcomes

  1. Vital Signs Scale (V-Scale)

    Time frame: It was assessed just before training as baseline. When all training was completed, ıt was assessed after 1 week again.

    The scale, originally developed by Mok et al. in 2015, was further adapted to Turkish by Ertuğ (2018). The 5-point Likert-type scale consists of 16 items and 5 factors. The sub-scales are workload, technology, communication, knowledge and key indicators. The total score varies between 16 and 80. A low score indicates that nurses have a low attitude towards vital signs monitoring while a higher score indicates a positive attitude towards vital signs monitoring. T

Secondary outcomes

  1. Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale

    Time frame: When simulation based training was completed, ıt was assessed after 1 week.

    The scale originally published by the National Nursing Association was adapted to Turkish by Karaçay and Kara in 2017. The scale, widely used to measure students' attitudes and beliefs about simulation, consists of 13 items and 2 sub-scales

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Other

Registry information

Acronym: PedVit

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jan 17, 2025
Registry last updated
Mar 18, 2025

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