1. The effect of mobile assisted teaching on nursing students' learning ventrogluteal injection application: The case of Turkey.
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Biyik Bayram, Şule, Özener, Gamze, Çakıcı, Nilay, Eren, Handan, Aydogan, Sinan, Öztürk, Deniz, Gülnar, Emel, and Çalışkan, Nurcan
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MOBILE apps , *FOCUS groups , *RESEARCH funding , *INTRAMUSCULAR injections , *EDUCATIONAL outcomes , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *INTERVIEWING , *CLINICAL trials , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MANN Whitney U Test , *QUANTITATIVE research , *GLUTEAL muscles , *INJECTIONS , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *BACCALAUREATE nursing education , *LEARNING strategies , *COMPUTER assisted instruction , *DATA analysis software , *CONFIDENCE intervals - Abstract
Background: There are deficiencies in ensuring the permanence of some theoretical information taught in nursing education and transferring it to practice environment. Mobile‐assisted teaching can be useful to eliminate deficiencies. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of mobile‐assisted teaching on nursing students' learning ventrogluteal injection. Methodology: The study was conducted in Turkey between February and June 2022. This study is a single group pre‐posttest intervention. The study sample consisted of 354 students studying in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades in Turkey. After the students completed the Introductory Characteristics Form and Ventrogluteal Region Information Suggestion Form in the pre‐test, the researchers sent a ventrogluteal injection animation video to their mobile phones. The students who watched the video completed the Ventrogluteal Region Information Suggestion Form and Mobile Education Activity Form in the final test. Results and Conclusion: There was a statistically significant difference between the pre‐posttest score medians of the students (p < 0.001). While the preference of the students for the ventrogluteal region in intramuscular injection was 28.5% before mobile learning, it increased to 51.1% after the training. In this study, after the training given through mobile learning, the knowledge level of the students about ventrogluteal injection and their preferences for ventrogluteal injection increased. In line with these results, mobile‐assisted education should be used in nursing education. Lay Description: What is already known about this topicDue to the high number of students per teaching staff in Turkey, it takes time for the theoretical education of the students to turn into practice.It is recommended that students prefer and use the ventrogluteal (VG) region for intramuscular drug injection.The students had difficulties because the nurses guiding them in clinical practice did not use the VG area.There are difficulties in applying the VG region injection in practice. What this paper addsMobile‐based intramuscular injection skill application increased the knowledge level of the students.Mobile applications make it easier to remember the learned information and apply it in the clinic. Implications for practice and/or policyMobile applications demonstrating skill practice provide a resource for nursing students to watch and learn whenever they want.It ensures that the student is always ready for invasive procedures to be performed on the patient in the clinic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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