Lecture Through Dialogue and Simulated Classroom: Comparing Teaching Strategies in Undergraduate Nursing

This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of students' learning, immediately, 15 and 30 days after the lecture and classroom dialogic simulated nursing lab. This was a longitudinal study of quantitative approach, like before and after the experiment, which consists of an experimental method for comparing the true understanding of students' knowledge in dialogued lecture in class and in simulated nursing lab, and hypothesis a simulated classroom is more effective than lecture dialogued for the apprehension of knowledge in stroke nursing. The study population consisted of 42 students of 6th semester of undergraduate nursing, School of Nursing of the Hospital Albert Einstein, who statistically were randomized into two groups, experimental and control. Were considered as intervening variables to the process of teaching and learning: age, professional activity in health, the weighted average of grades in the first and second school years and note the progressive assessment of knowledge, 2009. Both groups were subjected to a lecture on the recognition of signs and symptoms of stroke (CVA) and assists their conduct. The control group underwent a dialogic classroom expository and experimental group to a classroom in simulated nursing lab. In the two interventions was used as a pedagogic setting the Theory of Meaningful Learning. The survey results show that the strategy of class in simulated nursing lab is more effective for the acquisition of knowledge significantly by undergraduate students in nursing, with statistical significance of p <0.05 from pre to the time immediately post intervention on the signs and symptoms of stroke care and conduct. Thus the hypothesis of this study that simulated the lesson is more effective than lecture dialogued for the apprehension of knowledge in stroke nursing is true. In relation to the longitudinal follow-up after 15 and 30 days of the intervention groups (control and experimental) behaved very similarly over time, experiencing a decline in knowledge retention in both groups, without statistically significant differences. However, the experimental group behaved with top note. The comparison of the satisfaction of students in the lecture through dialogue and simulated classroom, the experimental group who attended the class in simulated nursing lab showed to be more satisfied and motivated for the apprehension of knowledge of stroke. This fact was proven by comparing the satisfaction of students in the lecture through dialogue and simulated in the classroom as well as by the reports of students who expressed the importance of class to provide a true picture of the objects of study contributing to a meaningful learning. Thus this study allowed to identify and compare the effectiveness of the acquisition of knowledge in the classroom in simulated nursing lab, as well as providing an understanding of the importance of educational planning and the adoption of teaching strategies based on the Theory of Meaningful Learning, identifying the need for pedagogical training of nursing faculty