Measurement of Life-saving Training Impacts on Health Care Professionals Retention and Competence: and Patients' Outcomes

Abstract

This review focused on exploring the significance of CPR impacts on health care professionals' retention abilities and the possibilities of transferring the learning to boost their competency while applying CPR. Considering life-saving training as the most prioritized healthcare professional needs signifies the need to evaluate the actual training impacts on the patients' outcomes. The life-saving training impacts evaluation relies on knowledge retention and the ability to show an adequate competency level while practicing in the clinical field. However, the training specialists' and education experts' failure to link the life-saving training to patients' outcomes would lead only to cyclical and traditional training attempts. The paper reviews the approaches for increasing the direct patients' impacts from CPR. It is an instrumental review to magnify the required training and instruction potentials to maximize learning transfer. Many sections in the review explored similar deficits that we would face in the life-saving modules due to focusing on delivery and instruction without aiming at the outcomes and learning transfer to the patients. This review paper provides an evidence-based approach to explore the specific gaps in training life-saving training programs and explore structured mechanisms for providing life-saving training in hospital settings.

Keywords: training impacts, training retention, competence, patients' outcomes

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-10-03

Publication date: April 30^th 2021