Nursing students: Training and maintaining universal newborn hearing screening knowledge

The purpose of the study was to obtain information concerning the effectiveness of a training program to equip nursing students in administering universal newborn hearing screening procedures, correctly recording results and clearly explaining outcomes to parent/guardians. First semester and third semester nursing students completed the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) Utah State University™ Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) training as an in-class assignment. Students were surveyed and knowledge assessed prior to and post training. Overall results showed that all student benefited from the training.