. Somayeh Ghafari; . Ahmadreza Yazdannik; . Shahla Mohamadirizi
Volume 10, Issue 11 , November 2020, , Pages 1-5
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Evaluation of students’ clinical performance is an essential part of nursingeducation. Mobile technology is one of the new methods of evaluation that has opened ...
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INTRODUCTION: Evaluation of students’ clinical performance is an essential part of nursingeducation. Mobile technology is one of the new methods of evaluation that has opened a new horizonfor nursing professors. Therefore, this study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate mobile healthtechnology in critical care nursing department in four‑phase intervention.METHODS: This study was a four‑stage educational intervention in which all postgraduate studentsof intensive care nursing in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences participated in the study. The foursteps were designing and developing a logbook, needs assessment, designing and implementingan Android app, and evaluating users (students) of the Android app. Subjects' satisfaction scoreswere collected using a researcher-made questionnaire with 14 questions. Data were analyzed usingSPSS 14 software.RESULTS: In this study, a clinical practice evaluation app was designed at four levels ofaccess (student, professor, department manager, and faculty dean). The results showed that morethan half of app users reported this technology in terms of an overall response to the tool (87.5%),tool specificity (100%), the amount of information displayed (75%), page layout (62.5%), informationrate (75%), recall information (87.5%), and ease of doing instructions (100%) were positive.CONCLUSION: Evaluation of clinical practice using technology was associated with increasingstudents’ satisfaction with evaluation method. In addition, this application enabled the simultaneousinteraction between the professor with the higher and lower ranks, including the department managerand student and vice versa and the simultaneous recording of this interaction.
