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Patients who rely on suction to remain alive in clinical settings are mostly unconscious, suffering from lung diseases,
and unable to cough up sustain themselves. Suction nursing care tasks provides appropriate suction nursing measures
with decisions regarding what measures are appropriate being made by a doctor based on the suction scenario and
any abnormal signs and symptoms. Therefore, suction nursing care is a required practical ability for clinical nurses.
Practice oriented courses and course materials are needed help new nurses control various unfamiliar suction scenarios
and become proficient in suction nursing care process and its steps. Consequently, suction nursing care is a key
competency that clinical nursing staff should practice. To ensure patient safety, it is necessary to let new nursing
staff handle various suction situations, familiarize themselves with suction, and implement procedures and steps involved
in nursing care. Accordingly, this study has the following objectives: (1) to devise standardized procedures and
instructions for suction nursing care in internal medicine and surgical wards, (2) to design modular curriculum and
materials for suction nursing care.
This study investigates medicine and surgical wards via a three stage approach. Stage 1 : design module courses via the
following six steps: (1) analyze the requirements for training nurses in practical suction care, (2) develop instructions and
standardized execution procedures for suction nursing care, (3) develop a means of confirming the ability of individuals
to administer suction nursing care, (4) decompose the various abilities required to administer suction nursing care into
small units, (5) summarize these small units detailing suction nursing care abilities and draft learning objectives, and (6)
establish evaluation indicators, benchmarks and evaluation methods and tools related to learning objectives. Stage 2:
develop modulated teaching practices via the following two steps: (1) edit modular curriculum and course materials,
(2) demonstrate modular curriculum under a tree structure and describe multimedia course materials. Stage 3: check
and revise module quality via the following three steps: (1) check modular curriculum materials and quality, (2) revise
modular curriculum materials and quality, (3) design a learning manual.
This study obtained the following outcomes: (1) a standard flow chart regarding suction nursing care, (2) a list of
indispensable competencies for executing suction nursing care in internal medicine and surgical wards, (3) a set of
modularized materials, evaluation techniques and tools for suction nursing care and (5) a set of practical guidelines for
developing modularized curriculum of suction nursing care. To associate the modularized curriculum and materials with
the set of practical guidelines, this study provides clinical practice for nursing school students and instruction on
self-learning for pre-service nursing staff.
T his study is the first to use focus groups to examine modular curriculum in the context of internal medicine and hospital
surgical wards of national hospitals. After considering the study objectives and topic, this investigation focused
on “modular curriculum for suction nursing care” and five questions regarding modular probation, and obtained
participant views regarding curriculum consistency. This investigation thus invited six participants to attend six focus
group visits dealing with six topics. The results of the focus group visits provide a reference for other investigations
dealing with different curriculums
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