Effect of Entrustable Professional Activity Promoting Program on Self- Efficacy and Suction of Secretion Procedure of Nursing Students

Abstract

The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to study the effects of the entrust-able professional activity (EPA) strengthening program on self-efficacy and to provide practice with the secretion suctioning procedure through nasal and cavity in young children for nursing students. Data collection was performed at the Pediatric Respiratory Ward of the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health. The participants were purposively recruited from 60 nursing students studying in their third year at the Mission Faculty of Nursing, and they were separated into two groups of 30 students each by equalized averaged grades. The intervention assigned to the experimental group consisted of three steps applied in the following sequence: 1) students observed, no practice assigned, 2) students practiced under close supervision of the instructors, and 3) students practiced under distance supervision of the instructors. The students in the control group only practiced under the supervision of the instructors. Data were collected at the end of the practicum using the self-efficacy of secretion suctioning procedure in young children questionnaire, and practicing of suctioning procedure in young children evaluation, IOC = .67 - 1 and reliability index = .95. Statistics used for analysis of data were descriptive statistics and t-test. The results were: the average scores of self-efficacy and practice of secretion suctioning procedure for students in the experimental group were higher after attending the intervention than they were before, and were significantly higher than the scores for students in the control group (p < .05).