A Study On Three Training Methods And Retention Of The Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skill In Clinical Nurses

ObjectivesTo compare the effects of three training methods (traditional teaching, multimedia instruction and self - instruction) on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation -Basic Life Support ( CPR - BLS) skill training in clinical nurses, and identify the best method for the training of CPR - BLS skill in clinical nurses.To compare skill retention of each method at immediate and three months and six months after initial training, and search the optimal CPR - BLS retraining period.MethodsQuasi - experimental design was used. 162 clinical nurses from Medical, Surgical and Emergency Departments of three tertiary -level hospitals (The Second Hospital of China Medical University, The Eighth Hospital of Shenyang Medical college and The Fifth Hospital of Shenyang ) in Shenyang were recruited by purposive sampling. Subjects from each hospital ( n = 54) were divided into three groups(n = 18) , each group includes 8 medical nurses, 8 surgical nurses and 2 emergency nurses. They were trained respectively by three different methods ; traditional teaching ( n = 54 ) , multimedia instruction ( n = 54 ) , self - instruction (n =54). The performance of one - rescuer adult CPR was evaluated and compared using a resuscitation manikin and the one - rescuer adult CPR performance Checklist before and after the training. The one - rescuer adult CPR performance Checklist was based on 2000 international guildlines for resus-...