Effectiveness of Education for Novice Flight Nurses Using Videos Recorded with a Wearable Camera

Abstract

　This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of education for novice flight nurses using videos captured by wearable cameras. A wearable camera was attached to novice flight nurses (“novice”) while engaged in prehospital care in a doctor helicopter. The subjects were five nurses with at least four years of nursing experience. A novice was asked to identify problems in prehospital care services using videos recorded by a wearable camera. The novice and instructor flight nurse (“certified instructor”) watched the videos together and gave instructions. To evaluate the implementation of activities by the novice, 21 key items (actions such as checking the patient’s vital signs), defined as prehospital care evaluation items, were used. These were classified into three categories: items that the novices could implement, items that they could not implement and recognized them as the improvement areas in the video, and items which they did not recognize the improvement areas in the video. The results revealed the items for which the novice failed to implement prehospital care. Among them, we identified items that the video failed to recognize as improvement areas. The implementation rate of the three novices significantly increased through objective understanding of their improvement areas as well as education by certified instructors. The novices’ reflections on the video and the certified instructor’s feedback on appropriate actions regarding the improvement areas were effective.