Teaching cardiovascular physical examination in nursing: clinical simulation
Renata Marinho Fernandes, Ana Carolina Costa Carino, Maria Isabel da Conceição Dias Fernandes, Jéssica Dantas de Sá Tinôco, Helen Cristiny Teodoro Couto Ribeiro, Ana Luísa Brandão de Carvalho Lira
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate, in Nursing students, the effect of clinical simulation as an educational strategy for learning about the cardiovascular physical examination. METHODS: Quasi-experimental study, with the placement of 30 undergraduate nursing students, from a public university in Northeast Brazil, in two groups - intervention and control. The educational intervention consisted of a clinical simulation applied to the intervention group. The control group received only the usual class. Pre-test and post-test were applied with questions about cardiovascular physical examination for both groups. In the inferential analysis, we used chi-square or Fisher's exact tests for categorical variables; and the Student's t-test for independent samples. RESULTS: The results showed that the difference in correct answers between the intervention and control groups was statistically significant, with a value of p of 0.05. CONCLUSION: We concluded that the applied educational strategy had a positive effect on undergraduate nursing students to learn the cardiovascular physical examination.