Developing a Standardized Learning Curve

NCT02830971 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: BUMS Protocl
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The nurses were learned the theoretical and practical skills previously during their studentship period. The procedures will be the first time the nurses wanted to perform in ICU. All clinical situations including patient, procedure, and shift will be similar for nurses. The end point will be reaching to the 95 score of learning curve. The reason for selection less than 5 percent variation was the flattening of learning curve (the plateau section).

Conditions

Registered Nurses; Nursing Personnel; Motor Skills

Keywords

standardized learning curve; Nurse; intensive care unit; Mastery; Training; Developing; Skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• level of nurse expertise

  The checklist contained steps for performance skills rated on a 1 to 3 scoring scale (1= The researcher used the checklist to assess the nurse's mastery level while changing a skills and recorded his/her score on the learning curve based on a 0 (no mastery) to 100 (complete mastery) scoring scale.Required Standard frequency for skills performance based on learning curve plateau, achievement of 75% of expertise and, 75 percent of nurses who achieved 75% of expertise in the following skills.

  Six months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Effect of GPA on the level of nurse expertise

  Six months

Study Arms (1)

Clinical specific education

OTHER

Providing clinical skills conditions

Procedure: Doing Different ICU techniques and skills

Interventions

Doing Different ICU techniques and skills PROCEDURE

Clinical specific education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Consent to participate in the study
• nothing already done the technique in ICU
• Not having the preventing physical deformity for doing the skills
• Working as the newly registered nurse in the unit as long as the study is progress

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University: lead
• Shahid Beheshti University: collaborator
• Tehran University of Medical Sciences: collaborator

Related Publications (1)

• Vahedian-Azimi A, Rahimi-Bashar F, Pourhoseingholi MA, Salesi M, Shamsizadeh M, Jamialahmadi T, Gohari-Moghadam K, Sahebkar A. Effect of the Specific Training Course for Competency in Doing Arterial Blood Gas Sampling in the Intensive Care Unit: Developing a Standardized Learning Curve according to the Procedure's Time and Socioprofessional Predictors. Biomed Res Int. 2021 Feb 13;2021:2989213. doi: 10.1155/2021/2989213. eCollection 2021.

  PMID: 33628776 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Amir Vahedian-azimi, Postdoc

  Baqiyatallah Universiy of Medical Sciences

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Post doc, PhD, RN

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 4, 2016
• First Posted: July 13, 2016
• Study Start: July 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2018
• Study Completion: April 12, 2021
• Last Updated: April 15, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share