Effects of a Situated Simulation Teaching Strategy on Knowledge of Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy among Surgical Nurses in Taiwan

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of a situated simulation teaching strategy for negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) on surgical nurses' knowledge of care for patients who receive NPWT. METHODS This quasi-experimental study used a one-group pretest/posttest design. Thirty-one female surgical nurses from a central Taiwan district hospital participated. They received situational simulation training and completed self-administered preintervention and postintervention scale assessing their knowledge of NPWT-related care and a demographic questionnaire RESULTS Participants' mean score on the knowledge of NPWT-related care scale was 19.90 preintervention and increased to 27.84 postintervention, a significant improvement (z = -4.45, P