Various Achievements in “Pajamas Changing Skills” with Different Levels of Repeated Practice

Abstract

　The following facts have found by research on "pajamas changing skills" achieved by effective repeated practice and self-training.

1) The fourth practice brings the best results. Up to the third practice substantial progress is achieved, but from the fifth practice on, progress is marginal and limited.

2) The following seven skills are relatively easily achieved by self-training:

(1)Explain the importance.

(2)Order of dressing undressing.

(3)Do not lie on the left side of the body.

(4)Manipulation of the drip bottle.

(5)Balance between efficiency and privacy.

(6)Secure and comfortable dressing.

(7)Wearing pajamas neatly.

　The following six items relatively hard to achieve by self-training:

(1)Safety of dropping region.

(2)Prevention of shaking.

(3)Secure drip action.

(4)Prevention of wrinkles.

(5)Relieving patient's pain.

(6)Providing a safe environment.

3) Skills items in the 0.4 UL index or more achieve the expected standard by the fourth self training session, but skill items in the 0.2 UL index or less, which hardly stimulate self-eval uating capacity, do not achieve the expected standard even by the fifth repetition, indicating the limitations of self-training.