Comparison of the impact of traditional and multimedia independent teaching methods on nursing students’ practical skills

Background: One of the most important principles of education concepts and establishing skills in nursing students is the use of proper goal based educational methods and applicable to operation room conditions. Special attention has to be paid to: practical skills of circulation, scrubbing, preparing instruments and implants. The aim of this study was: Identifying the best educational way for practical skills by nursing students in OR field. This experimental study was conducted to compare the impact of traditional and multimedia independent teaching method on cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills of 4th year nursing students. Summary of Work: In an experimental study 38 nursing students participated and were randomly divided into 19 samples of experimental and control groups. The control group was taught by traditional method and the experimental group by multimedia independent (short movie) teaching method. Evaluation method was performed by DOPS for both groups. Comparison of basic specifications of two groups were performed by X2 test. Data normalization were measured by KolmogrovSmirair test. Non parametric Mann-Whitney were used for groups comparison. Also mean and standard deviation were calculated. Summary of Results: Based on the results of evaluation between two groups’ performance by resemblance evaluation instrument, a significant increase in mean and standard deviation (P<0.0001) was observed in the case group. Discussion and Conclusions: Analysis of data indicated that cognitive and psychomotor skills were statistically increased in multimedia teaching method. Multimedia teaching will improve cognitive and psychomotor skills of nursing students.