Effect of high-fidelity simulation airway management training program on nursing students’ performance, satisfaction, and self-confidence in Palestine

ABSTRACT

Airway management is one of the main situations that required nursing skills. Actual airway management experience on live patients is limited due to few opportunities to perform endotracheal intubation for students and issues related to students' liability. Therefore, this study evaluated the effect of High Fidelity Simulation airway management training program on nursing students’ performance, satisfaction, and self-confidence in Palestine. A pre-post-test control group was applied through the recruitment of a 154 nursing students from Arab American University Palestine. The sample distributed randomly to experimental and control groups. Data were collected using the American Heart Association airway management performance checklist and the learner satisfaction and self-confidence for Learning (LSSCL) Questionnaires. Findings showed that there were no significant differences of airway management performance, satisfaction, and self-confidence scores between both groups at pre-test. On the contrary, there were significant differences between both groups of airway management performance, satisfaction, and self-confidence at post-test. Thus, High-fidelity simulation (HFS) was found to be an effective tool to provide a safe and effective learning environment for nursing students, consequently improving their airway management performance and increasing their satisfaction and self-confidence. This study supports the need to integrate HFS into the nursing curriculum.

KEYWORDS:

• Airway management
• confidence
• high fidelity simulation
• nursing students
• performance
• satisfaction

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Ahmad Mohammad Sati Hodrob

Mr. Ahmad Mohammad Sati Hodrob is working as a Clinical Instructor at Arab American University in Palestine. He has a master’s degree in adult health nursing.

Malakeh Z. Malak

Dr. Malakeh Z. Malak has a PhD degree in Community Health Nursing. She is working at the Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan in the Amman City in Jordan, where she is working as a researcher in spite of an academic position as an Associate Professor. She is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Applied Life Sciences International, SM Addiction Research & Therapy, Global Journal of Health Science and Nursing, Integrative Journal of Global Health, and UPI Journal of Pharmaceutical, Medical and Health Sciences (UPI-JPMHS) and others. She is a reviewer of many journals. She published many articles, and she is working on other studies. She is an active member of community services.

Ahmad Ayed

Dr. Ahmad Ayed has a PhD degree in Pediatric Health Nursing. He is working at Arab American University in Palestine, where he is working as a researcher in spite of an academic position as an Associate Professor. He published many research papers.