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Status unknownNCT05830383Updated Apr 26, 2023

Application of PDCA Circular Management to Improve Critical Thinking Skills of ICU Nurses Within Five Years of Employment

An interventional study of PDCA circular management in PDCA Circular Management, sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 35 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-04-26.

Sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Mar 2023), so the status shown — last known as Active, not recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2022, registered Apr 2023).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 35 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Choose about 100 low -age nurses who have been in the ICU in 2022, and conduct a scoring score of the survey and critical thinking skills through the schedule. Based on the survey and scoring results ,Formulate the PDCA circular management process and conduct a judgment of critical thinking skills after intervention.To compare the critical thinking skills survey score before and after.

Read the detailed description

Through the countermeasure 1-ABC rescue training: Clarify the positions and perform their duties; Countermeasure 2-Advanced Life Support (ACLS) training: Clear division of labor and strengthen the cooperation Tune; Countermeasure 3-Objective Structural Clinical Test (OSCE Exam): Objective, orderly, and organized assessment. The framework and group competitions are evaluated to promote teaching and other measures.The comparison experimental objects use the data of the two questionnaires before and after the PDCA cycle management. Explore the application effect of PDCA circular management within five years of employment.

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Conditions studied

  • PDCA Circular Management

Keywords

  • PDCA circular management;critical thinking skills
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In context

Lead sponsor

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University is the lead sponsor of 466 studies on the registry; 271 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 35 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: (1) ICU nurse within five years of joining the ICU

(2) Voluntary participation in this study.

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Exclusion Criteria:(1) Clinical nurses who have worked for more than 5 years

(2) Involuntary participation in this study.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    PDCA circular management

    The countermeasure 1-ABC rescue training:Clarify the positions and perform their duties; Countermeasure 2-Advanced Life Support (ACLS) training: Clear division of labor and strengthen the cooperation Tune; Countermeasure 3-Objective Structural Clinical Test (OSCE Exam): Objective, orderly, and organized assessment

    Behavioral: PDCA circular management

Interventions

  • BehavioralPDCA circular management

    PDCA circular management means "Plan""Do""Check""Action" four steps

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. critical thinking

    The score of critical thinking skills after interventions

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

1 site
  • One Case of Individualized Nursing Plan for Sepsis
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510220, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Boso CM, van der Merwe AS, Gross J. Critical thinking disposition of nursing students: A quantitative investigation. Nurse Educ Pract. 2021 Aug;55:103167. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103167. Epub 2021 Jul 30. PubMed 34358855 ↗
  • Christodoulakis A, Zografakis Sfakianakis M, Tsiligianni I. Suggestions for overcoming the barriers to critical thinking in nursing. Jpn J Nurs Sci. 2023 Jul;20(3):e12525. doi: 10.1111/jjns.12525. Epub 2023 Feb 8. PubMed 36755474 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 26, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05830383
Lead sponsor
Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 26, 2023
Start date
Mar 9, 2022
Primary completion
Mar 27, 2023
Completion
Jun 30, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 26, 2023

Study contacts

huiying Fuhuiying
principal investigator · colleague

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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