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Using mental imagery to practice a specific psychomotor skill.
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
|May 1, 1990
Summary
Mental imagery training can help nursing students visualize psychomotor skills like cardiopulmonary resuscitation. While students found it useful, it did not significantly improve ORCPR performance compared to a control group.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Medical Simulation
Background:
- Psychomotor skills are crucial in nursing.
- Traditional practice methods may be enhanced with innovative techniques.
- Mental imagery offers a potential avenue for skill acquisition and refinement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the efficacy of mental imagery in practicing psychomotor nursing skills.
- To assess the impact of mental imagery on the performance proficiency of one-rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ORCPR).
Main Methods:
- A study group utilized mental imagery for ORCPR practice.
- A control group did not use mental imagery.
- Post-test questionnaires and performance assessments were employed.
Main Results:
- Subjects could clearly perceive psychomotor skills through mental imagery (p = .05).
- Participants reported mental imagery as a useful and engaging learning tool.
- No statistically significant difference in ORCPR performance was observed between the mental imagery and control groups.
Conclusions:
- Mental imagery is perceived as a valuable learning technique by nursing students.
- Further research is needed to explore its impact on objective performance outcomes in psychomotor skills like ORCPR.