Effectiveness of a Online Training Program With a Clinical Procedure Standardized in Units of Nursing (CPSUN)

Ignacio Zaragoza García

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preventive Measures; Infection Control

Treatments: Procedure: Online training of a nursing technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02965989

InveCuidSkill16

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates if the implementation of an online platform with procedures and protocols, improve the knowledge of professionals and can have a health impact related to decreased contamination of blood cultures.

Full description

This is a Quasi-experimental study, with parallel groups (experimental and control).

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an Online Learning Platform used by nurses to improve the results of a blood culture technique. The online learning tool is studied in two of four internal medicine units of a tertiary hospital in Madrid. These two units have similar characteristics of personnel, materials and structure. Both units are at a great distance, preventing a professional talk to each other.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be nurse of the nursing unit selected.
• Foreseeing to remain in service during the study.
• Acceptance of voluntary participation in the study, prior information.
• Signature of informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Those professionals who for reasons beyond their control are transferred to other services or are on leave (in any form). They can not complete the various phases of the study.
• Professionals who, for whatever reason, decide to withdraw their consent to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Online training of a nursing technique

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receives an individual online training of extraction of blood culture for 3 months (This platform aims to improve knowledge and skills), they are sent 3 homework (one per month) and are evaluated at the end of each.

Treatment:

Procedure: Online training of a nursing technique

not receive online training

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants don´t receives an individual online training of extraction of blood culture.Do their work as usual.