Abstract
Art is playing a more important role in nursing education as the two disciplines interconnect. Music has been used in western countries to improve the ability of medical and nursing students’ clinical skills in performing physical examination. But in China, very little literature focuses on music. The aim of this research is to explore the effect of music training in improving students' auscultation ability in the course of physical examination for nursing undergraduates. Second year nursing undergrraduates (n=125) were allocated to either the intervention group or the control group randomly. The control group (n=62) received the traditional training, the intervention group (n=63) received the traditional teaching, plus music training consisted of pitch, rhythm, timing, intensity, tenth, masking into the physical examination course. Both groups were evaluated on their ability to interpret 5 sounds (2 heart sounds, 2 lung sounds and 1 bowel sound) before the course and 15 sounds (6 heart sounds, 5 lung sounds, 2 bowel sounds and 1 mixed sound) after the course. The control group overall score was no significant differences compared to the intervention group which in the heart sounds, lung sounds and bowel sound before the course. After the course, the intervention group score of listening test was significant higher than control group which in the heart sounds, lung sounds and mixed sound. The results showed that the application of music training can improve the students' auscultation ability to a certain extent.
Highlights
Through interdisciplinary cooperation, medicine and art gradually have developed a closer relationship [1]
The use of art in medical education has been identified by more and more scholars both at home and abroad [4], and many researches showed that the use of art could improve students’ humanistic quality [5,6,7], enhance communication and observation skills [8,9,10], and promote students to open their minds of thinking [11,12,13]
The physical examination is the bridge between basic nursing and clinical nursing [14], it covers a wide range of knowledge that requires students to memorize the theoretical knowledge of health assessment signs, and to master the corresponding evaluation skills and apply the knowledge into clinical practice [15]
Summary
Medicine and art gradually have developed a closer relationship [1]. This interdisciplinary cooperation between medicine and art provides an innovative, participatory, and responsive method of learning for students [2, 3]. It is very important to develop effective teaching methods to help students master the course content. With the introduction of art into medical education, Chinese researchers have made some achievements in combining art with medical classes [17], and this study aims to incorporate music training into the practice course of physical examination and evaluate the effects of applying music training on the nursing undergraduates in the physical examination
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