Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on OSCE among Nurse Educators

Abstract

A pre experimental study was done to determine the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program (STP) on Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) among nurse educators. The objectives of the study are: a) assess the pretest knowledge scores of nurse educators, b) determine the effectiveness of STP on OSCE among nurse educators by comparing post test knowledge scores with pretest knowledge scores and c) associate the pretest knowledge scores with demographic variables. The investigator had prepared STP on OSCE and was delivered by lecture method using power point presentation. The study was conducted in a college of nursing, Nainital. The sample consisted of 31 nurse educators. Data was collected using convenience sampling technique nurse educators were selected for the study. Pretest was given using structured knowledge questionnaire. Subsequently, STP was delivered using power point presentation. Following that post test was done after five days using same tool used for pretest. The results of the study reveals that the over all mean, standard deviation and mean percentage of the pretest knowledge scores of nursing faculty members were 3.968, 1.516 and 39.7% respectively. The mean difference between pretest and post test were 4.355 and paired ‘t’ value was 17.576 that was significant at 0.001 level. Further, level of knowledge between pretest and post test were computed. It was found majority (51.6%) had average knowledge and 38.7% had poor knowledge in the pretest whereas majority (90.3%) had good knowledge and 9.7% had average knowledge in post test. Also, it was found that except qualification, all demographic variables were not found to have any significant association.