Application of the Kirkpatrick Four Levels in assessing the training effect for junior nurses from internal medical departments / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the training effect for junior nurses from internal medical departments of our hospital.Methods Data gathering tool,based on the Kirkpatrick Four Levels,was formulated by means of theoretical research and expert consultation.Before training,investigation of needs was conducted and then training contents were organized.Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was implemented before and after the training to obtain information about nurses' comprehensive abilities and to compare with their self-assessed data.Twelve months after the training,the training effect was kept track on from those subjects' head nurses.Results After the training,80 subjects' comprehensive abilities obtained from OSCE scored higher than before the training,(71.51±0.49) vs.(61.92±0.55),t=4.961,P ＜ 0.01.Their selfassessed comprehensive abilities also scored higher than that before,(83.49±0.75) vs.(72.73 ±0.43),t=7.020,P ＜ 0.01,the differences were both statistically significant.By questionnaire training,26 head nurses (26/32,88.46％) in general medical department showed positive assessment over training effect.Nurse's behaviors had improved significantly.In 80 training nurses,60 (75.00％) had become the examples of their colleagues.In 80 patients and their family members,73 cases showed their satisfaction and the satisfaction degree was higher than 90％.Conclusions The Kirkpatrick Four Levels can be applied to assess the training effect for junior nurses and the training mode can effectively improve comprehensive abilities of junior nurses.