Abstract
We extracted technical elements based on veteran nurses’ teachings on intravenous catheter placement techniques to novice nurses in order to visualize techniques involved in the success and failure of intravenous catheter placement.
Five veteran nurses performed educational intervention for 21 novice nurses after these novice nurses performed intravenous catheter placement using an indwelling needle. Transcripts were created from recordings of educational intervention situations and data were categorized into A (Antecedent), B (Behavior), and C (Consequence) for the content of each technique taught by the veteran nurses. Technical elements involved in the success and failure of intravenous catheter placement were extracted on the basis of the antecedent, i.e., veteran nurses’ teachings. Techniques were then visualized using an algorithm in accordance with the Japanese Industrial Standard (JISX0121-1986) from start to completion of the intravenous catheter placement technique. Results revealed that novice nurses encountered technical problems during the time from checking backflow of blood after successfully inserting the indwelling needle into a blood vessel to removing the inner needle. This algorithm should serve as an effective means of accurately checking the techniques of Novice nurses by having novice nurses objectively examine their own techniques.
