Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games
Date Submitted: Oct 3, 2022
Date Accepted: Nov 6, 2023
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Effectiveness of a game-based mobile application in educating intensive critical care specialist nurses on ECMO pipeline preflushing: a quasi-experimental trial
ABSTRACT
Background:
In the context of training specialist nurses and nursing education, a game-based mobile application is used as a simulation to teach intensive critical care specialist nurses the knowledge and skills of ECMO pipeline preflushing.
Objective:
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a game-based mobile application for ECMO pipeline preflushing for intensive critical care specialist nurses.
Methods:
A total of 86 intensive care specialist nurses who were learning ECMO for the first time were included in this study. The nurses were divided into two groups: a control group (n = 43) and an experimental group (n = 43). All participants received three days of intensive training. During the following week, participants in the experimental group used a game-based mobile application for simulation exercises; the control group received no additional intervention. All participants took a theoretical test and a test of skill operation at the beginning and one week later. At the same time, we observed the learning curve of the experimental group of ECMO pipeline preflushing skills.
Results:
The final theoretical test scores and skill operation test scores of the nurses in the experimental group and the control group were significantly higher than those in the initial test (p<0.001). The final theoretical test scores and the final skill operation test scores of the intensive critical care specialist nurses in the experimental group were higher than the average scores of the control group nurses (p<0.001, p<0.001). The analysis of the learning curve showed that the experimental group needed an average of 17 repetitive exercises to master the skills.
Conclusions:
Findings from this study support use a game-based mobile application as a supplemental tool for teaching specialist nurses in clinical skills.
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