Emergency and critical care professionals' opinion on escape room as a health sciences evaluation game: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

ABSTRACT: New teaching and evaluation methods are growing in health sciences. The escape room is a game that is showing benefits for assessing knowledge and important competencies in healthcare professionals. The aim of this study is to analyse the opinion of emergency and critical care professionals on the use of escape rooms as an evaluation game.A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted using an ad-hoc questionnaire with a Likert-type scale. The study included emergency and critical care professionals who participated in the escape room "The Frustrated Emergency and Critical Care Professional," that took place during an emergency and critical care national congress. Data collection was carried out in June 2019.The sample was composed of n = 50 emergency and critical care professionals, 52% of whom were physicians and 48% were nurses. Professionals believe that this is a good teaching game for evaluation and useful for strengthen knowledge (4.7 points), as well as to improve teamwork and the ability to work under pressure (4.9).The escape room is a useful evaluation game in the context of emergency and critical care units that also allows training the teamwork and working under pressure competencies.

La perspectiva de la formación universitaria sobre la Enfermería de urgencias y emergencias: la opinión del alumnado / The perspective of university education on Emergency Care Nursing: the opinion by students

OBJETIVO: conocer la percepción de los egresados sobre su formación en servicios de urgencias y emergencias y las competencias adquiridas con ella; valorar su satisfacción con la formación recibida y estimar la intención de cursar una hipotética especialidad en Enfermería de Urgencias y Emergencias (EUE) en caso de que estuviese reglada. MÉTODO: estudio descriptivo transversal realizado entre 2017 y 2019 cuya población diana fueron los estudiantes de último curso de Enfermería de las universidades españolas. Se diseñó un cuestionario ad hoc autoadministrado que incluyó variables sociodemográficas, relacionadas con la formación teórica y práctica y con la intención de cursar la Especialidad de Urgencias y Emergencias si existiese. Se realizaron análisis uni y bivariantes. RESULTADOS: participaron 1.529 estudiantes. El 65,9% cursó alguna asignatura relacionada con urgencias y emergencias. La valoración global de la duración de las estancias clínicas, entre quienes las efectuaron, fue de 3,9 sobre 7 en el caso de la rotación hospitalaria y de 3,6 en la rotación extrahospitalaria. Un 28% de los estudiantes refirió no haber adquirido competencias suficientes para trabajar en el primer caso y un 35,9% en el segundo. Cuanto mayor es la duración de la estancia clínica, mayor es la valoración de los alumnos en cuanto a la adquisición de las competencias. Un 53% elegiría la "hipotética" especialidad de EUE vía Enfermera Interna Residente como primera opción sobre resto de opciones actuales. CONCLUSIONES: es necesario un análisis profundo de la aplicación de los planes de estudios del Grado en Enfermería. Los recién egresados tendrían entre sus expectativas la realización de una especialidad en EUE

OBJECTIVE: to understand the perception of graduated students about their education on Emergency Care and the skills acquired through it; to assess their satisfaction with the training received, and estimate their willingness to follow a hypothetical specialty on Emergency Care Nursing (ECN), in case this was regulated. METHOD: a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted between 2017 and 2019; its target population was the last-year students of the Nursing Degree in Spanish universities. A self-administered ad hoc questionnaire was designed, which included sociodemographical variables, as well as variables regarding theoretical and practical training, and about the willingness to follow the Emergency Care specialty if available. Univariate and bivariate analyses were conducted. RESULTS: the study included 1,529 patients; 65.9% of them studied some subject associated with Emergency Care. The overall assessment of the duration of clinical stays, between those involved, was 3.9 out of 7 in the case of hospital rotation, and 3.6 in case of extra-hospital rotation. In total, 28% of students reported that they had not acquired enough skills to work in the first case, and 35.9% in the second case. The longer the duration of the clinical stay, the higher the score assigned by students to the skills acquired. Of these students, 53% would choose the "hypothetical" ECN through Internal Nursing Resident as their first option over the rest of current options. CONCLUSIONS: deep analysis is required regarding the implementation of the education plans for the Nursing Degree. Recent graduates would have an ECN specialty among their education expectations