Thesis
Outcomes of teaching baccalaureate nursing students about mastitis utilizing a multimodal teaching tool
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2009
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100957
Abstract
Experiencing mastitis during breastfeeding can be a painful and frightening experience for a mother. Further complications of septicemia, abscesses or the complete removal of a breast have been known to interrupt this natural phenomenon of infant breastfeeding. Several factors influence the variations in reports of 10-33% incidence of mastitis, however, the underreported cases maybe the most significant effect. Such underreporting has devalued the actual incidence among women, limiting the priority of its inclusion in postpartum teaching by nurses. Another factor to consider is that the majority of literature reviewed for this study and used in educating students and practicing nurses lacks current evidence-based anatomy and physiology of the breast during lactogenisis as well as the pathophysiology of mastitis. This, in combination with traditional teaching methods, ill-equips the nurse to educate the new mother. Current studies on cognition support the use of multimodal teaching tools to maximize student learning. Using current evidence-based information, this study compared the knowledge acquired and retained regarding postpartum mastitis utilizing single traditional teaching methods and a 22-minute multimodal learning video on mastitis to baccalaureate, undergraduate nursing students. The results of this study highlight a significant difference in knowledge acquisition after viewing the designed multimodal teaching tool. An overall increase is also noted in the student's self-reported confidence and comfort level in explaining and caring for a woman with mastitis. Baccalaureate student nurses were able to better articulate a description and treatment of mastitis to a new mother as well as to other health care professionals in medical terminology. These results may influence the future developments of multimodal tools in universities, increasing the cognition of nurses in educating and preparing patients about their health care needs.
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- Title
- Outcomes of teaching baccalaureate nursing students about mastitis utilizing a multimodal teaching tool
- Creators
- Maria Joan Castillo
- Contributors
- Margaret Auld Bruya (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Nursing, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525399601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis