• Dr. Lilly Christopher
• Dr. S. Victor Devasirvadam

A comparative study to evaluate the effectiveness of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) versus Traditional Clinical Examination (TCE) on Clinical knowledge and Clinical skill competence regarding Tracheostomy Care among Undergraduate Nursing students in selected Nursing Institutions at Bhopal, M.P. METHOD AND MATERIALS A quantitative evaluative approach using True experimental design consisting ofpost-test only control group design was conducted at Mar Baselios and Kasturba College of Nursing Bhopal, M.P. 220 Undergraduate Nursing students were selected by simple random sampling a pilot study was conducted. A Self-Structured Knowledge Questionnaire, Observational checklist to assess clinical skill performance by OSCE method, Criteria based observational check list for TCE for Tracheostomy Care procedure and Structured Opinionnaire (5-point Likert Scale-satisfaction scale) to get the opinion about OSCE for learning Tracheostomy care from experimental students. The findings suggested that there was a significant statistical difference in the level of knowledge and skill among undergraduate nursing students between OSCE and TCE method regarding tracheostomy care. There was no significant association between clinical competency and demographic variables in the experimental group.There was a significant association between the level of clinical competence and demographic variables in the control group with the year of study, age, among subjects in experimental group. There was a significant association between the clinical knowledge and year of study in the control group IV-year students had more clinical knowledge score than III-year students. There was a moderate positive correlation between clinical knowledge score and clinical skill competence score in experimental group.There was a poor positive correlation between clinical knowledge score and clinical skill competence score in control group.87 (79-09 %) of them had 91%-100% level of satisfaction towards learning Tracheostomy care through OSCE.

Effectiveness, OSCE, TCE, Tracheostomy Care, Undergraduate Nursing students.

"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.a509-a524, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403068.pdf

"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppa509-a524, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403068.pdf