. Hasanali Jafarpoor; . Meimanat Hosseini; . Maryam Sohrabi; . Masoomeh Mehmannavazan
Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2021, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Since the purpose of medicine science is health promotion, education of this groupis very important. The use of new evaluation methods is one of the first educational needs. ...
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BACKGROUND: Since the purpose of medicine science is health promotion, education of this groupis very important. The use of new evaluation methods is one of the first educational needs. Giventhat many conventional clinical evaluation methods are not able to fully evaluation students in theclinical settings and only evaluate limited information, This study is designed to evaluate the impactof direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) and mini‑clinical evaluation exercise (mini‑CEX)on nursing students and their clinical satisfaction skills.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi‑experimental study was conducted in 2018 to evaluatethe dialysis unit of the 6th semester nursing students of Babol University of Medical Sciences in Iran.Samples were selected by the census method and then random allocation. Data collection wasperformed using two questionnaires and two checklists to evaluate the clinical skills and satisfactionof the two groups of testing and control. Moreover, the data were analysed with using the SPSSsoftware (version 18, IBM SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) through the descriptive and analyticalstatistics (Chi‑square test and t‑test).RESULTS: The results showed that the intervention group compared with the control evaluation scoreof 13/73 ± 2/44, 11/74 ± 2/43, P < 0.002, respectively. Furthermore, the mean score of satisfaction ofthe intervention group with the DOPS method compared to the traditional method of the control groupwas 72/50 ± 7/31, 63/48 ± 9/31, P < 0.001, respectively. As well as, the mean score of satisfactionwith the mini‑CEX method of the intervention group compared to the traditional method of the controlgroup was 73/28 ± 7/78, 63/48 ± 9/31, P < 0.002, respectively.CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study showed that students who were evaluated by DOPSand mini‑CEX methods had a higher score of clinical performance evaluation and higher level ofsatisfaction. Nursing professors can improve the learning process and the satisfaction of nursingstudents by using direct feedback on such evaluation methods.
