Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 65-72, January 2009

Enhancing nursing students’ skills in vital signs assessment by using multimedia computer-assisted learning with integrated content of anatomy and physiology

  • Chularuk Kaveevivitchai

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Innovation and Development of Learning Process, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Phayathai, Rajathevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
    • Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Benchaporn Chuengkriankrai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Yuwadee Luecha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Rujires Thanooruk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Bhinyo Panijpan

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Innovation and Development of Learning Process, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Phayathai, Rajathevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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  • Pintip Ruenwongsa

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Innovation and Development of Learning Process, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Phayathai, Rajathevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
    • Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute for Innovation and Development of Learning Process, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Phayathai, Rajathevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand. Tel.: +66 2 201 5105 8; fax: +66 2 354 7345.

Accepted 24 June 2008. published online 14 August 2008.

Summary 

Due to constraints of increasing number of nursing students and a disproportionate shortfall of faculty members in nursing schools, it was necessary to supplement traditional lecture or lecture-demonstration with on-line multimedia materials and/or multimedia compact discs for enhancing learning. The authors have developed a computer-assisted learning (CAL) multimedia on vital signs with animation and audio features for teaching in the classroom based on the 5Es inquiry cycle. When the CAL was tried on second-year undergraduates in two comparable schools, all groups of students gained significantly higher performance skills regardless of whether the groups were subjected to CAL/lecture or CAL/lecture/demonstration. However, they did not gain in factual knowledge.

Keywords: Computer-assisted learning (CAL), Multimedia, Nursing students performance skills, Vital signs assessment

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PII: S0260-6917(08)00075-0

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2008.06.010

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 65-72, January 2009