title: Knowledge and skill retention of in-service versus preservice nursing professionals following an informal training program in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a repeated-measures quasiexperimental study.
abstract: Our objective was to compare the impact of a training program in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the knowledge and skills of in-service and preservice nurses at prespecified time points. This repeated-measures quasiexperimental study was conducted in the pediatric emergency and ICU of a tertiary care teaching hospital between January and March 2011. We assessed the baseline knowledge and skills of nursing staff (in-service nurses) and final year undergraduate nursing students (preservice nurses) using a validated questionnaire and a skill checklist, respectively. The participants were then trained on pediatric CPR using standard guidelines. The knowledge and skills were reassessed immediately after training and at 6 weeks after training. A total of 74 participants-28 in-service and 46 preservice professionals-were enrolled. At initial assessment, in-service nurses were found to have insignificant higher mean knowledge scores (6.6 versus 5.8, P = 0.08) while the preservice nurses had significantly higher skill scores (6.5 versus 3.2, P < 0.001). Immediately after training, the scores improved in both groups. At 6 weeks however, we observed a nonuniform decline in performance in both groups-in-service nurses performing better in knowledge test (10.5 versus 9.1, P = 0.01) and the preservice nurses performing better in skill test (9.8 versus 7.4, P < 0.001). Thus, knowledge and skills of in-service and preservice nurses in pediatric CPR improved with training. In comparison to preservice nurses, the in-service nurses seemed to retain knowledge better with time than skills.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi 110001, India. jhumasankar@gmail.com
authors: Jhuma
authors: J
authors: Sankar
authors: Nandini
authors: N
authors: Vijayakanthi
authors: M Jeeva
authors: MJ
authors: Sankar
authors: Nandkishore
authors: N
authors: Dubey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064701:Pediatric Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
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