Self-Help Training System for Nursing Students to Learn Patient Transfer Skills

Abstract

This paper describes the construction and evaluation of a self-help skill training system for assisting student nurses in learning skills involving the transfer of patients from beds to wheelchairs. We have proposed a feedback method that is based on a checklist and video demonstrations. To help trainees efficiently check their performance and correct errors, the checklist was prepared with items specific to the performance of tasks related to individual body parts (e.g., the height of the waist). In this system, two Kinect RGB-D sensors were used for measuring the posture of the trainees and patients. An automatic skill evaluation method was used to designate the trainees' performance against each evaluation item as correct or incorrect. Furthermore, the system's operation interface was designed to enable self-operation by trainees. Control tests were performed to measure the training effectiveness of the system. The results of the tests on a control group (n ¼ 5) that used only a textbook and demonstration video but did not receive feedback were compared with those of the experimental group (n ¼ 5) that used the proposed system. The results of both subjective and objective evaluation demonstrated that the experimental group showed greater improvement in performing patient transfer than the control group ðp < 0:05Þ.

Translational Acceleration, Rotational Speed, and Joint Angle of Patients Related to Correct/Incorrect Methods of Transfer Skills by Nurses

“…According to this background, our previous work proposed an evaluation system using Kinect sensors for nursing students to learn transfer skills [ 12 ]. Further, a robot was developed to simulate various patients during transfer [ 13 ].…”

“…Despite these studies proposing different methods to evaluate the learners’ performance, the effects of the sensor on the learner and environment are inevitable. For instance, the color marker [ 12 ] and motion capture marker [ 14 ] need to be attached to the trainee’s body, and the inertial sensors must be set on the player’s golf club [ 16 , 17 ]. Further, the motion capture camera and Kinect sensor employed in our early work required time consuming calibration and installation [ 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

“…For instance, the color marker [ 12 ] and motion capture marker [ 14 ] need to be attached to the trainee’s body, and the inertial sensors must be set on the player’s golf club [ 16 , 17 ]. Further, the motion capture camera and Kinect sensor employed in our early work required time consuming calibration and installation [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The aforementioned reasons make the proposed systems have low applicability in cases requiring portability or having a large number of students.…”

Development and Validation of Robot Patient Equipped with an Inertial Measurement Unit and Angular Position Sensors to Evaluate Transfer Skills of Nurses

“…A method to assess trainee behavior related to clinical teamwork was introduced in [16]. Additionally, in a previous study, we proposed a transfer skills evaluation system that uses a Kinect camera and color markers attached to patients and students [17]. Evaluation systems for nursing skills require that a patient receive care from a nursing trainee during the evaluation.…”

Enhancing Clinical Learning Through an Innovative Instructor Application for ECMO Patient Simulators

“…By bridging the 56 gap between theory and practice, SBL excels in providing an ample substitution for 57 direct patient care in a safe learning environment (DeCelle, 2015). Through its use of experiential learning and deliberate practice, SBL allows the learners to apply theoretical concepts, develop teamworking skills, experiment and safely make mistakes, rehearse technical procedures, and then take part in a facilitated and reflective learning process during the debriefing of an immersive scenario or to receive constructive feedback from instructors on a skills workstation (DeCelle, 2015;Huang et al, 2014;McGaghie, Issenberg, Cohen, Barsuk, & Wayne, 2011). A study on junior-level baccalaureate nursing students signified that the use of high-fidelity simulation leads to improved skills performance (DeCelle, 2015).…”