CxAL-Guide Survey Main Page

Purpose
The purpose of this educational project and research study is to determine if the use of the CxAL-Guide improves the accuracy of undergraduate and graduate nursing students’ estimations of cervical dilation, effacement, station, and fetal position. The two hypotheses are:
1. Undergraduate and graduate nursing students receiving the CxAL-Guide along with normal teaching modalities will more accurately measure cervical dilation, effacement, and station when compared to undergraduate and graduate nursing students who do not use the CxAL-Guide.
2. Undergraduate and graduate nursing students receiving the CxAL-Guide along with normal teaching modalities will be able to determine the correct fetal position more often than undergraduate and graduate nursing students who do not use the CxAL-Guide.

Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This proposal uses four educational innovations to teach undergraduate and graduate nursing students about assessment of labor. These include:
(a) an investigator-created Cervical Assessment of Labor Guide (CxAL-Guide) to objectively measure the cervical changes during labor and fetal position (b) a DVD presenting content on labor, emergency birth, and instructions for using the CxAl-Guide,
(c) cervical assessment manikins.
(d) internet access to instructional videos on labor, emergency birth, and instructions for using the CxAl-Guide for faculty and students.
(e) an on line PHP interactive survey form entering resultant data from surveys into a MySQL data base. (Both PHP and MySQL are "Open Source").
(f) The instructional videos, interactive survey and database will be accessable for replication, other research, data mining and data warehousing.


TWU College of Nursing Dallas Campus Cervical Digital Examination Using ©CxAL- Guide Survey Main Page	Peggy Mancuso, Ph.D., CNM, RN Associate Professor of Nursing Program Coordinator, Doctor of Nursing Practice Director Of Research, Dallas Campus CNM, Parkland Memorial Hospital Ancora Imparo