Stoma Education Methods and Nurse Learning Outcomes

The goal of this randomized controlled trial was to determine whether stoma-care training using standardized patients, as compared with low-fidelity mannequins, improved meaningful learning self-awareness, perceived learning, and practical stoma-care skill levels in oncology nurses at a 600-bed tertiary oncology education and research hospital in Ankara, Turkey. The main questions it aimed to answer were: Did standardized-patient simulation produce greater gains in meaningful learning self-awareness? Did it yield higher perceived learning scores? Did it result in larger improvements in stoma-care skill levels? Researchers compared Group M (standardized patient) to Group K (low-fidelity mannequin) to evaluate which method more effectively enhanced nurses' cognitive and technical outcomes. Participants completed a 10-item demographic and background survey, answered pre-training assessments on all three scales, attended a two-hour didactic session on stoma fundamentals and evidence-based care, received two hours of hands-on practice with their assigned modality, and completed immediate post-training assessments using the same instruments.