Author(s)

Hiromi Shibuya^1*, Akiko Saito², Masumi Mugiyama¹, Noyuri Yamaji^3,4,5, Chisato Eto⁶, Satoshi Shibuya⁷

¹Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science Technology, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
²Department of Health Care Policy and Health Economics, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
³Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴Department of Family Nursing, Division of Health Science and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵Department of Global Health Nursing, Graduate School of Nursing, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶School of Nursing, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷Department of Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan.

Background: Implementing invasive procedures is an important part of patient management by clinical nurses; however, there are gaps between nurses’ actual knowledge and skills and expected professional care capacity. Purpose: This scoping review aimed to map the existing literature related to recent institution-provided educational programs for invasive procedures involving clinical nurses. This study seeks to understand the contents of educational programs and the methods for assessing educational effects. Methods: This scoping review was completed using the following four databases: PubMed (MEDLINE), Embase, Cochrane Library, and Emcare for the period 2000-2022. We included studies that used all forms of educational approaches (e.g., didactic lectures, hands-on training, or on-the-job training). This scoping review considered peer-reviewed publications published in English using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approaches. A total of 83 studies underwent in the final analysis. Results and Conclusion: A combination of didactic lectures and hands-on training was provided as an educational program in most studies. Contrary to our prediction, educational interventions with advanced technologies such as VR are extremely rare, suggesting that the effectiveness of advanced technologies in learning invasive procedures should be examined to facilitate and retain educational effects more efficiently in future studies. Regarding the assessment of educational effects, nurses’ cognitive (i.e., theoretical knowledge about procedures), psychomotor (i.e., implementing procedures), and psychological aspects (e.g., confidence and self-efficacy in procedures) were evaluated using questionnaires and observational methods. While most studies used a one-group pretest-posttest design, the ratio of randomized controlled trials (RCT) was relatively low. Thus, an RCT design should be introduced in future studies to test the validity of the developed educational program more accurately.

Training, Education, Invasive Procedure, Nurses, Assessment

Shibuya, H. , Saito, A. , Mugiyama, M. , Yamaji, N. , Eto, C. and Shibuya, S. (2024) Education Programs for Invasive Procedures Involving Nurses: A Scoping Review. Open Journal of Nursing, 14, 200-224. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2024.145015.