Abstract
The educational issue of newly hired nurses includes deviations from an intended course after graduation, a decline in nurse ability and skills, an increase in the number of inexperienced mentors and burden of extra workload, and variation in education contents among mentors. To solve these problems, it is deemed necessary that we promote educational linkage with standardized teaching/evaluation methods. We conducted “Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)” from our own perspective regarding three techniques；the standard drawing blood method, drug preparation and intravenous drip infusion. Also, we evaluated the nursing department OSCE based on the results of a questionnaire survey carried out before and after conducting OSCE.
Among 57 newly hired nurses, when compared the self-evaluation of the proficiency level between after practical skill seminar and one month after conducting OSCE, the latter showed significantly higher points in the drug preparation.
At the same time, we assessed the self-evaluation of procedure adherence rate on eight items in the standard drawing blood method six months and ten months after OSCE. Comparing operating group (n=52) with a non-operating group (n=22-25) regarding the self-evaluation of procedure adherence rate six months after OSCE, the former reported significantly higher adherence rates in “checkup patients with test tubes (p=0.003)” and “blood drawing after confirming avascularization and the puncture site (p=0.024)”. Meanwhile, there was no significant difference between the two groups ten months after OSCE.
From these results we conclude that the nursing department OSCE would standardize teaching/evaluation methods in education for newly hired nurses and that it would be useful for early learning and to maintain its effects.
