Complex clinical skills in nursing students

Abstract

Introduction: the intensive care nursing course is development of complex clinic skills in students. The objective is identifying the development of certain degree of complex clinic ability, in the clinical practice of intensive care nursing course. The intensive care nursing course has two steps: theoretical and practice. The first one has as proposal to get the curriculum contents. In the second the students develop skills for critical ill patient whole care. Due to lack of interaction with the patient since the beginning of the course, at the end of process students aren't reflexioning about critical care patient and its care.

Material and method: longitudinal study, 57 students population from three groups, under the taking-part learning perspective a123 questions instrument was built, they all explore three clinical ability indicators, it was applied in three moments: beginning, middle and finish of the clinical practice. Outcome shows that clinical practice get a low complex clinic ability development.

Results: the grade of domains of clinical skills in the student were at the begin and at the end with in the scale low and very low with 44% and 33% respectivily.

Discussion: the authors make stand out of a different instrument exploring something else that recall and try to face students with real situation like those they will find in their professional practice.