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The Efficacy of Using Simulation Based Education on Nurses Performance Regarding Pediatric Basic Life Support

Abstract

Background: Pediatric basic life support is the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for cardiac arrested children until advanced life support can be provided. Simulation is the imitation of a real-world process over time. Theoretical education is not adequate alone for effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation applying. Thus, the application must be given in accordance with training and manual guidelines.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a simulation based education on nurses performance regarding pediatrics basic life support.
Methods: A pretest and post-test quiz-experimental study design was carried out at Al-Zahraa Teaching Hospital and Al Manathera General Hospital at Al_Najaf Al-Ashraf governorate between the periods from 26th September 2023 to 10th June 2024.Two groups of 25 study group nurses and 25 control group nurses were selected based on criteria of the study, A structured interview which included three parts related to sociodemographic characteristics, nurses’ knowledge, and nurses’ practice regarding pediatric basic life support, the education passed through 3 phases as pretest, implementation and posttest phase. The data were analyzed by using the program of Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis approaches were used in order to analyze the results of the study.
Results: The results showed that the training program significantly improved the knowledge and practice of pediatric basic life support among nurses in the study group, with knowledge scores rising from 0.46 to 0.89 and practice scores from 0.38 to 0.82 after the intervention. In contrast, the control group showed no significant changes, with knowledge scores moving slightly from 0.47 to 0.50 and practice scores from 0.44 to 0.46.
Conclusion: The present study concluded that nurses’ performance in pediatric basic life support significantly improved after simulation-based education and the study provides aline to enhance the simulation integration as active education strategies to develop nurses’ performance in applying clinical skills.
Recommendations: Based on the results of this study, the researcher recommends further studies with large sample to evaluate the effect of simulation on nurses’ education output for more studies that simulation would be valuable for nurses’ enhancement. The researcher also recommends encouraging nurses to improve their performances through increasing their participation in basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation courses (at least every 6 months)