S Darke
Effects of anxiety on inferential reasoning task performance
Journal of personality and social psychology
peripheral intravenous cannulation venipuncture among common invasive procedures health care without risks complications aim study evaluate current training provided nursing midwifery undergraduate students student knowledge attitude practice performance regarding procedural skills assessed knowledge attitude practices survey disseminated final year nursing midwifery students first phase study second phase study nursing students video recorded observed performing skill peripheral intravenous cannulation simulated environment thirtyeight nursing midwifery students completed survey 66 nursing students participated observation study descriptive statistics performed mean knowledge score 72 150 standard deviation sd 24 mean attitude score 1020 1800 sd 479 qualitative data survey categorized demonstrate specific areas focus improving training mean performance score 1620 2800 sd 298 study provides valuable input developing enhancing evidencebased curricula help educators supervisors academic clinical settings identify areas clinical performance education could enhanced