Elaboración de un test para evaluar competencias prácticas de estudiantes de enfermería en reanimación cardiopulmonar avanzada

Abstract

There is a vital risk for a patient after suffering a cardio respiratory arrest. To manage and solve this situation nursesshould have a strong education in this area. Clinical case simulation is an effective teaching methodology to learnpractical skills in Advanced Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (A-CPR). Nevertheless the evaluation of practicalcompetences has high difficulties because of the complexity to evaluate an activity during its performance and thepossible variability of the teacher evaluation criteria.Objective: To create a practical competences evaluation test in A-CPR for nursing students to be used in simulationteaching environments.Method: The creation of this test has a design to demonstrate construct, content and facial validity. First phase:bibliographic research in the main biomedical data bases to find articles evaluating A-CPR practical training. Afteranalyzing the instrument found a first version of the questionnaire was elaborate with 34 items. Second phase: a groupof 6 experts in teaching A-CPR and 2 experts in questionnaire elaboration made a item revision and modificationobtaining the definitive test.Results: The test has 51 items grouped in 8 dimensions with 4 possible answers: 4) correct, 3) partially correct, 2)wrong, 1)Not done.Conclusions: This test has been created from previous studies, following the European Resuscitation Council 2010criteria and experts consensus. It offers enough construct, content and facial validity proofs. In later studies thereliability of the questionnaire will be test with the test-retest proofs, the inter and intraobserver consistency and its useand application properties