EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTERACTIVE VIDEO APPROACH FOR CPR RECERTIFICATION OF REGISTERED NURSES.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Technology.
Description: The purpose of the study was to validate a specific interactive video teaching method for CPR recertification of Registered Nurses. The few studies that have been conducted to validate the use of an interactive teaching method to teach CPR have been limited to lay subjects or nursing students learning CPR for the first time.

The quasi experimental design randomized 57 Registered Nurses into interactive video or traditional lecture/demonstration teaching groups by their clinical work area (acute care vs. non acute care units). American Heart Association content and testing materials were used. Knowledge test scores and skill test scores were analyzed using ANOVA and Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical methods.

There was no significant difference found in knowledge or skill test scores between participants of the two teaching methods or between participants from different work areas. In addition, there was no correlation found between the number of CPR experiences a subject witnessed or performed in the clinical setting with knowledge or skill performance scores. Nurses who experienced the interactive teaching method preferred the interactive video method two to one. Instructor time was reduced 87% and participant time was reduced 11% on the interactive system to learn the same content equally well. In conclusion, the interactive teaching method was found to be an equally effective instructional method, a more cost effective method, and a preferred method of instruction.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: A, page: 1979.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1986.

School code: 0178.