Performance of Baccalaureate Nursing Students in Insertion of Laryngeal Mask: a Trial in Mannequins

The airway control is priority in patient resuscitation. The Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) can minimize complications, establishing a safe airway. Is fundamental to nurse acquired skills to act in emergency situations; the simulation is a important learning tool for this, because allows a realistic environment and allows to student the possibility of training skills.

Hypothesis: There difference in acquisition of knowledge and skills in airway management to baccalaureate nursing students submitted to different learning strategies: classroom lecture-dialogued follow of laboratory activity practice with low-fidelity mannequin or simulation in laboratory with low-fidelity mannequin?

The aim of this study is compare the effect of teaching-learning strategies: classroom lecture-dialogued follow of laboratory activity practice with low-fidelity mannequin or simulation in laboratory with low-fidelity mannequin, in the acquisition of knowledge and skills to baccalaureate nursing. This is a randomized controlled trial, the population is all students of baccalaureate nursing of EERP-USP, eighth period, 69 students in total; the sample will be voluntary and composed for students that accept participate of study. The intervention group (IG) will be submitted to simulation class and the control group (CG)to exhibition-dialogued class, and practical activity in skill lab. The study will have 3 steps:

• The participants will be recruited with letters and posters, randomized to IG or CG and follow submitted to write pre-test.
• The GI will submitted to simulation in laboratory and de CG classroom lecture-dialogued follow of laboratory activity practice. The focus will be the airway management with emphasis in LMA.
• All participants will be submitted to write post test and follow to practice test in simulation scenario, with medium-fidelity mannequin, which simulates human physiologic conditions.

The scenario will have a appraiser with a checklist which performance scores of skills and interventions observed. The activities will be filmed and recorded. To data analysis will be used the SPSS software: descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t-test of Student.

Inclusion criteria

• student must be in the eighth period of course;
• must be registered regular in the baccalaureate nursing course.

Exclusion criteria

• absence in any step of study.