Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• منصوره Rooeintan ¹
• Fatemeh Aslani ²
• Mohammad mehdi Aslani ³
• Fatemeh Ahmadi Moin ⁴
• Saeed Ghanbari ⁵
• Ali Ahmadabadi asl alamdari ⁶
• Zahra Arjeini ⁷

¹ Faculty member, Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing Care Research Center in Chronic Diseases, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

² MSc student in community health nursing, student research committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

³ Undergraduate students in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran

⁴ Bachelor of nursing, student research committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

⁵ Emergency medical service, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

⁶ Bachelor of Science in Emergency Medical Services, , School of Paramedical Sciences, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.

⁷ faculty member, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: Nurses working in critical care units are responsible for making decisions in critical situations. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the level of clinical skills of nursing students of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in critical care units in 2020-2021.
Method: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study investigated 113 nursing students in the 6th, 7th and 8th semesters of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in the academic year of 2020-2021. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisting of 2 parts. The first part included students' demographic information and the second part included a 3-part checklist related to clinical skills in ICU, CCU and hemodialysis units. The validity of the instrument was checked and confirmed using the content validity method. The reliability of the tool was also checked and confirmed by the test-retest method. SPSS version 22 software and descriptive and analytical statistics tests were used to analyze the data.
Findings: The average of the total clinical skills in the critical care units was 60.15 ± 11.05, which indicates that the general skills of the students in the critical care units are at the desired level. The highest average score was related to the ICU unit (21.57 ± 5.60) and the lowest average (18.08 ± 4.00) were related to the hemodialysis unit. Also, the skill of working with the ventilator, post-shock care, and setting up the hemodialysis machine were the most undesirable skills of the students in the ICU, CCU, and hemodialysis units, respectively.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the relevant authorities should make the necessary plans to improve the clinical skills of nursing students, especially in the critical care units, which has a special sensitivity. Also, in order to improve the skills that are less accessible to students in clinical centers, methods such as creating a practical space and the possibility of working on mollage and virtual training such as web-based methods and simulation can be used.

Keywords

• clinical skills
• critical care unit
• nursing students