Improving Team Training During Mock Code Blue Simulations

The Hospital for Sick Children

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Education, Simulation

Treatments: Behavioral: Just-in-time training (JITT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02529215

1000048092

Details and patient eligibility

About

Communication and teamwork failures are the leading causes of errors in healthcare settings. In situ mock code simulations are a potential means to train team-based skills using simulation within real clinical care environments where errors occur; however, debriefing discussions often focus on gaps in learners' clinical skills as opposed to team functioning. This study aims to determine whether learners who are pre-trained using just-in-time simulation regarding CPR quality and medication administration will exhibit improved performance with respect to these skills during in situ mock codes as well as improved team functioning.

Enrollment: 264 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health professionals, including nurses, pediatric residents, physicians and/or respiratory therapists scheduled to participate in interprofessional, team-based in situ mock codes.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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264 participants in 2 patient groups

Just-in-time training (JITT) group

Experimental group

Description:

Receive a 20min just-in-time simulation-based teaching session targeting: (1) CPR quality and (2) medication administration within 3 hours of the scheduled in situ simulation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Just-in-time training (JITT)

No additional training (control) group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group who receives no additional training.