Longitudinal One Year Vs Single Day NRP Training.

Ahmed Moussa

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nurse Training in Neonatal Resuscitation

Treatments: Other: Single-day NRP Training; Other: longitudinal NRP training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04572048

MP-21-2020-2444

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) recommends providers renew their certification every 2 years. However, many Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in Canada face challenges of significant budget cuts in training and a large number of caregivers to train with a high turnover rate. This situation makes it difficult for managers and nurse educators to ensure up-to-date certification and competence for all clinical staff. In addition, considering that only 0.1% of newborns will require cardiac massage and/or epinephrine, health care professionals' exposure to critical events is low to insure maintenance of expertise. Furthermore, it is shown that there is a significant decrease in knowledge among learners who have undergone specific training after only 3 months. This is worrisome considering that some nurses will not renew their certification if the course is not paid for by the employer, or if they are not released from clinical duties to attend. While keeping in mind the various required components of NRP training: book reading, online exam, performance stations, Integrated Skills Station Assessment (ISSA) and simulations, we would like to assess the educational and financial impact of a new educational strategy developed as to allow more nurses to be retrained thus ensuring maintenance of their neonatal resuscitation expertise.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newly recruited ( in the last 3 months) neonatal and delivery room registered nurses from level 2 and 3 perinatal centers

Exclusion criteria

• Registered nurses that have already completed a NRP training in the past.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Single-day NRP training

Other group

Description:

This group will follow the single-day NRP training course that is currently the standard. It usually takes 8 hours to complete this training course and the nurses are released from their clinical duty to attend the training course.

Treatment:

Other: Single-day NRP Training

Longitudinal one year NRP Training

Experimental group

Description:

This group will follow the longitudinal NRP training course. The longitudinal NRP training course will consist of nine 30-minute modules that will be taught every 6-8 weeks over a period of one year. The nurses will attend the different modules of the training course at their work place and during their work shift so they will have to be released from their clinical duty only 30 minutes at a time.

Treatment:

Other: longitudinal NRP training