The goal of technological and vocational education is to provide an individual with theoretical and practical abilities useful in their future career. Nursing departments in such schools introduced a new curriculum from 2006. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of a new elective subject, hemodialysis nursing, on hemodialysis knowledge in 2-year nursing baccalaureate students. Research design was quasi-experimental. A hemodialysis knowledge questionnaire was employed to collect data once prior to the beginning of the course and once following course completion. A total of 107 nursing students from a 2-year baccalaureate program participated in the study. Subjects were divided into experimental and control groups based on courses taken. SPSS software was used to analyze data. The two groups had no significant differences in terms of the pretest score. A significant difference was found between pretest and posttest scores for the experimental group, but not for the control group. The average experimental group score was 68.49, which represented an increase of 12.63. Findings may be referenced in further modification work on course content revision and education strategies.
The goal of technological and vocational education is to provide an individual with theoretical and practical abilities useful in their future career. Nursing departments in such schools introduced a new curriculum from 2006. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of a new elective subject, hemodialysis nursing, on hemodialysis knowledge in 2-year nursing baccalaureate students. Research design was quasi-experimental. A hemodialysis knowledge questionnaire was employed to collect data once prior to the beginning of the course and once following course completion. A total of 107 nursing students from a 2-year baccalaureate program participated in the study. Subjects were divided into experimental and control groups based on courses taken. SPSS software was used to analyze data. The two groups had no significant differences in terms of the pretest score. A significant difference was found between pretest and posttest scores for the experimental group, but not for the control group. The average experimental group score was 68.49, which represented an increase of 12.63. Findings may be referenced in further modification work on course content revision and education strategies.