Benefits Of Return Demonstration In Nursing

Return demonstration is an essential component of the nursing practice that paves way for student nurses to gain knowledge of the nursing procedures. It enables them to grasp ideas of what nurses do in the hospitals or communities when they take care of patients and of how they do these procedures to them. Learning, in almost all aspects of life, is a cascade of trials and errors, which allows an individual to earn insights from their mistakes. But being able to learn nursing skills especially the technical ones for the first time directly through the patients may impose a great risk on the patients’ health. To commit errors during an invasive procedure requiring the use of a syringe with needle to administer medications may be traumatic to

Through surveys conducted to 100 students and interviews made with two clinical instructors of Silliman University College of Nursing (SUCN), it is found out that a supervised return demonstration helps lessen the anxiety of the students in performing nursing procedures, hone their communication skills and their ability to establish rapport, improve their dexterity in terms of manipulating nursing equipment, and bringing out their ability to think and decide

The learners may need reassurance to reduce their anxiety because they will view return demonstration as a test to grade how they performed. According to our survey, 61 out of 100 student nurse respondents preferred to have return demonstration before the actual rated return demonstration of a nursing procedure. This is because the learners will have the opportunity to practice again the steps and also recall principles which will be important as they will be sometimes asked by the teacher when performing the actual return demonstration. The procedure is unfamiliar or new to them which will need the learners more time to practice the steps satisfactorily to reduce errors along the way. Another reason why the 61 out of 100 preferred to have supervised return demonstration before the actual return demonstration is, just reviewing the procedure may not be enough since some procedures have very long steps with terms that are complex for some students to understand. Not all procedures are short and easy to remember with simple terms used in the principles, in reality almost all of the nursing procedures require much understanding, practice, and dexterity. The demonstration can be more enhanced and understood if the teacher slows down at the pace of performing the procedure or breaks long