Effectiveness Of Assemblr Edu To Improve Sub Cutaneous Skill Among Nursing Students In Yogyakarta Nursing College, Indonesia

Abstract

Introduction: Medication administration errors among nursing students are most common in nursing laboratories and health services. For this reason, sufficient skills are needed for students before they are assigned to practice in health services. Efforts to improve students' skills continue to be developed by nursing education in Indonesia. One form of educational media development is Assemblr edu. By using Assemblr edu about medication administration such as subcutaneous injection skill, it is hoped that students can access easily and quickly.

Purpose: To determine effectiveness of assemblr edu improving knowledge and skill of parenteral medication among nursing students in Yogyakarta Nursing College, Indonesia.

Method: The research is a quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent group pre-test and post-test designed with control group. The research location at three nursing College in Yogyakarta.Respondents in this study in each group were 56, so the total respondents were 112 students.

Result : statistic test shows thant the Sig. (2-Tailed) value from the Independent Sample t-test as 0.000 or <0.05, indicating a difference in the mean scores between the post-test measurements of skills in the control and experimental groups.

Conclution: There was a difference in the pre-post test scores related to skills subcutaneous between the control and intervention groups. The difference in post-test scores after the Assembler Edu intervention for administering medication between the control group and the experimental group indicates that the Assembler Edu platform is quite effective in enhancing the knowledge and skills of nursing students.