Measurement of psychomotor ability to the performance of intramuscular procedure

Abstract

This study is to verify the psychomotor skill using psychomotor capacity measure. The authors describes two tests that will be used by nurses denominated "eletronic psychomotor" and "perforation". Those tests are applied in the first stage of this study to analyse the teaching-learning process of intramuscular injection. Three groups of undergraduate nursing student in difference stages of evolution of the course, were analysed and were verified that there was homogeneity among groups in relation to psychomotor capacity.