英文摘要 |
Background: In recent years severe nursing shortages plus rotations in work schedule influence nurses' motivation to take courses for presenting clinical case reports in writing. In Taiwan, academic ability to demonstrate a clinical case report in writing is required for frontline nurses so that they can promote their career development. Many nurses have good clinical nursing experiences without good writing ability to detail a clinical care report. The lack of ability to demonstrate a clinical case report in writing becomes the bottleneck for nurses who want to be promoted in their career development. Purpose: The purpose of this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical case report training through "learning by designing". Methods: The study design was a simple-group time-series of intervention. The subjects were 35 stage II staff nurses in a regional teaching hospital in northern Taiwan. They were divided into seven teams and attended a Learning by Designing training program for seven months. The training contents included lecture on case reports, individual team's case report discussion, and actual writing practice on case reports. The evaluation methods were based on process indicators (nurse attendance rate, completion of homework) and outcome indicators (published articles in Taiwan Nurses Association magazines or professional journals and participants' selfefficiency evaluation before, during, and after training). Results: The study subjects' attendance rate was 94.3%, and 100% of all subjects submitted their homework. 18 reports (51.4%) were passed by Taiwan Nurses Association with 6 reports of them published in professional journals. The self-efficacy score in writing a clinical case report before and after training showed significant differences, as well. Conclusions: The findings revealed that the "learning by designing" training program has a significant impact on nurses' self-efficacy in demonstrating clinical case reports and increases the number of articles published in professional journals. We suggest that such a teaching program be used in nursing administration projects or nursing research training courses. |