Competition "Nursing with good professional skills - good manners": A playground to challenge professional skills and communication and behavior skills

With the aim of helping students understand the form and method of OSCE (station running) exam; improving professional knowledge and professional skills for students; creating a competitive learning movement, an environment for exchange and connection between students, recently, the Nursing Faculty of Dai Nam University successfully organized the contest "Nurses with good expertise - good manners".

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the competition, Mr. Le Van Duy - Head of the Nursing Department of Dai Nam University shared: “For nurses, professional skills are an essential requirement. To achieve a high level of professional skills, students need to practice constantly. In addition, nurses are the people closest to patients and their families. Therefore, nurses need to have good soft skills to serve their work. The Nursing Competition for Good Professional Skills - Good Behavior is a useful intellectual and academic playground for students to practice the knowledge and skills required of a nurse…”

Participating in the contest, Nursing students experienced 3 exciting contest contents, including: Pride of Nursing Students - Nursing Skills - Professional Communication Behavior.

Accordingly, the video voting contest with the theme of Nursing Student Pride takes place from May 12-26, 2022 on the Nursing Faculty fanpage of Dai Nam University.

The teams competed in the Nursing Skills competition.

The Nursing Skills and Professional Communication Behavior Competition was held directly in the large hall of GD1 building with the Jury members being teachers in the Health Science Council and the Nursing Science Council.

Station 1 challenge measures vital signs.

The Nursing Skills Competition has 5 technical stations. Each candidate will perform the technical procedures at the stations in turn in the prescribed order. Station 1 measures vital signs; Station 2 administers intravenous injections; Station 3 performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Station 4 bandages shoulder wounds; Station 5 provides first aid to patients with forearm fractures. The time allotted for each station is 5 minutes. The judges will calculate the time for each technique and score the techniques according to the checklist, converted to a scale of 10 points/station/student. The maximum score for each individual is 50 points, each team is 150 points.

Station 2 intravenous injection challenge.

CPR Station 3 Challenge.

Evaluating the students’ skills through the Nursing Skills competition, Associate Professor, Dr. Hoang Duc Hanh – Head of the Faculty of Medicine said: “I was really surprised by what the Nursing students demonstrated. They were very confident and skillful in performing the skills on the model. These are extremely important prerequisites for them to go to the hospital clinic and catch up with the real working environment after graduation…”

Station 4 challenges shoulder wound bandaging skills.

The behavioral competition will be performed in the form of dramatization. From the previously drawn situations, the teams will develop a script, dialogue, and arrange actors to suit the chosen situation to solve the problem in the situation in the most appropriate way according to the professional ethics of nurses.

Many meaningful and humane messages were conveyed by the students through each situation.

At the end of the competition, the Organizing Committee selected the best teams to award prizes in each category.

First prize in the Nursing Student Pride category belongs to class DD14-02, second prize belongs to DD13-01.

The first prize in the Vocational Skills competition went to class DD13-02, the second prize went to class DD13-01, the third prize went to class DD14-02, and classes DD14-01 and DD13-03 received the Encouragement Prize.

The award for the best student of the Vocational Skills competition belongs to contestant Nguyen Khanh Huyen - class DD13-01.

The organizing committee awarded first prize in the behavioral competition to class DD14-01, second prize to class DD14-02, third prize to class DD13-02 and consolation prize to class DD13-01.

The competition was successful, bringing many meaningful experiences to students.

Communications Department