COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILDREN'S CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION TRAINING WITH TWO METHODS OF SMARTPHONE APPLICATION AND SIMULATION ON NURSES' SKILLS

Training nurses and updating the cardiopulmonary resuscitation process, especially in children, is critical. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training for children using a smartphone application and a method of simulation of nurses' skills.

This semi-experimental study was conducted on 90 nurses working in two hospitals affiliated with Tehran Social Security Organization in 2020. The nurses were randomly assigned to the simulated and smartphone application groups. In this study, the research team designed a practical application so that the educational content be installed on the participants' phone and conduct the survey in two ways. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation checklist of the American Heart Association in 2015 was used to determine the skills of nurses before and four weeks after the intervention. Then, chi-square, independent t, and paired t test as well as covariance analysis were done using SPSS 18 version.

Before the intervention, there was no significant difference between the two groups regarding the mean cardiopulmonary resuscitation skill score, but this difference was significant four weeks after the training (P = 0.014). The increase in children's cardiopulmonary resuscitation skill scores in the smartphone application group was significantly more than them in the simulation group (P=0.008).

The results show that the implementation of the smartphone application is more effective on the nurses' skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation of children. Therefore, this method is recommended as a less expensive but more accessible solution to improve the performance of nurses concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation of children.