The Effects of DTAI on Nursing Skills and Self-Efficacy

摘要

This research is to evaluate the effects of Digital Technology Assisted Instruction (DTAI) applied in the Physical-Examining (PE) skill courses for nursing students. Both a "Learning Satisfaction with DTAI" survey and a "Self-efficacy" survey for these courses had been designed as tools in this study. Students of the third grade (five years program) in the nursing department of a technological college in Taiwan were recruited. One hundred and twenty-seven subjects who took the DTAI program on internet were assigned to be the experimental group, while the other 77 subjects with the traditional program to be the control one. All data were analyzed by SPSS 13.0 for Windows. The results were: (1) The practice time after classes, scores of the skill test, and scores of the "Self-efficacy" survey of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group. (2) The average time of online-browsing through DTAI in the experimental group was 122.22 minutes. (3) The average score (5-points scale) of the "Learning Satisfaction with DTAI" survey was 4.37. (4). There were significantly positive correlations between the practice time after classes, scores of the skill test and scores of "Self-efficacy" (p < .001). (5) DTAI for the PE skill courses made a good impression for nursing students. DTAI was indeed a convenient and efficient tool without limitations to time or places, and still made a great improvement in learning effects. Moreover, the students get more confidence in problem-solving and nursing skill learning. Such intervention can be incorporated into the teaching instruction to improve the nursing skills and self-efficacy for the novices. Finally the destinations of teaching and learning can be achieved.