Do basic auscultation skills need to be resuscitated? A new strategy for improving competency among nursing students

Technology Complements Physical Examination and Facilitates Skills Development among Health Sciences Clerkship Students: <em>An Integrative Literature Review</em>

“…Student access to technology-based learning resources in the clinical environments was advantageous to facilitating learning physical examination [ 39 40 41 42 43 ]. In the study by Fog-Petersen, Borgnakke [ 39 ], a video repository was developed to supplement areas of practice that may have limited clinical opportunities during clerkships, such as mental status examination.…”

“…The four papers in this sub-theme support authentic content as an important factor for learning experiences that are included during clinical clerkships for effective learning and student engagement [ 39 40 41 42 43 ]. Weiner [ 43 ] explored the use of an online module to support the learning of physical examination of chronic low back pain and found that this module significantly improved clinical skills in medical students evaluating chronic low back pain.…”

“…Angarita et al [ 48 ] studied the use of simulation in combination with technology-based multimedia learning material to teach breast examination and found this method to be more effective than the traditional teaching approach of simulation exclusively. The study by Goldsworthy et al [ 41 ] found that virtual auscultation using authentic real patient sounds (rather than synthetically derived sounds used by past interventions), had improved performance in nursing students’ competence in detecting cardiac murmurs. Pearson et al [ 49 ] explored the implementation of simulation to provide a comprehensive basis for the learning of female pelvic examination that combined touch-based examination and transvaginal ultrasound.…”

“…Bedside Mobile Apps [30][31][32][33] POCUS [20,[25][26][27][28][29] Infrared [34] Smart Phone (general) [50,51,55] Technology mediated learning of and about physical examination practice [52][53][54] App based blended learning [44][45][46][47] Online Video library/E-module [39,40,42,43] Simulation [41,48,49] Disjunction between Education and Practice [8,56] Table 2 Thematic analysis.…”

Learning practical nursing skills in simulation centers – A narrative review

“…Regular training and assessment should take place after completing each cycle of nursing education. Goldsworthy et al., 2021 Canada To explore a specific virtual auscultation learning strategy among undergraduate nursing students and the impact on competency in auscultation of heart and lung sounds versus traditional methods of auscultation education RCT IG / CG Pre / post 127 Second year Heart and lung auscultation Virtual auscultation / No treatment Knowledge Only significant increase in score in IG in identification of a murmur on cardiac auscultation Gonzalez and Sole, 2014 USA To assess student competency on skill attainment in urinary catheter insertion to identify the most common breaches in aseptic technique. Quantitative descriptive 13 Unknown Urinary catheter insertion Female manikin Skill perf.…”