2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of Educational Tools that Employ a Touch Screen to Cultivate the Ability to Anticipate Hazards

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24792402
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Fundamental nursing
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator	KASAHARA Yasuyo 首都大学東京, 人間健康科学研究科, 助教 (00610958)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	医療安全 / 危険予測 / 教育 / 看護 / タッチパネル / リスク評価
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to develop an educational tool to cultivate the ability to anticipate hazards among nursing students. We experimentally developed software and tested it using the iPad among 41 nurses and 83 nursing students. The participants were shown images from the medical field and asked to touch areas they thought might pose potential hazard. And they were asked to evaluate the risk and were surveyed about methods for dealing with an identified hazard. The results were that the students were less adept than the nurses at identifying hazard areas and evaluated the risk significantly lower. After identifying the hazards, there was some variance in methods for dealing with the hazard among both groups of participants. Next, we tested software with an added advice function for methods of dealing with the identified hazard among 93 students. The results were generally favorable in terms of interest, ease of use, and effectiveness.