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Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a situated simulation teaching strategy for negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) on surgical nurses' knowledge of care for patients who receive NPWT.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study used a one-group pretest/posttest design. Thirty-one female surgical nurses from a central Taiwan district hospital participated. They received situational simulation training and completed self-administered preintervention and postintervention scale assessing their knowledge of NPWT-related care and a demographic questionnaire.
Results: Participants' mean score on the knowledge of NPWT-related care scale was 19.90 preintervention and increased to 27.84 postintervention, a significant improvement (z = -4.45, P < .001). All aspects of NPWT knowledge, including indications and effects (z = -3.84, P < .001), device operation (z = -3.71, P < .001), assessment (z = -3.89, P < .001), and anomaly response (z = -3.93, P < .001), significantly improved following the intervention.
Conclusions: The study indicates that simulation and cues and a debriefing session in situational simulation teaching significantly enhance surgical nurses' knowledge of NPWT-related care and facilitates the acquisition of problem-solving methods, suggesting its potential application in NPWT-related continuing education courses for surgical nurses.
期刊介绍:
A peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, Advances in Skin & Wound Care is highly regarded for its unique balance of cutting-edge original research and practical clinical management articles on wounds and other problems of skin integrity. Each issue features CME/CE for physicians and nurses, the first journal in the field to regularly offer continuing education for both disciplines.