The Impact of Resuscitation Quality Improvement
The resuscitation quality improvement model made its debut in 2015, unsettling the CPR culture of a one-time, massed training event that occurs every 2 years. The rationale, design, and urgency ...
Validating Clinical Knowledge: A Closer Look at the Cognitive Assessment Activity
The resuscitation quality improvement model is built upon a longitudinal design of high-stakes assessments to validate a learner’s ability to demonstrate both knowledge and skill. Meaning, learners are continually assessed ...
Educational Efficiency, the Emerging Factor in Utstein’s Formula For Survival
The Utstein Formula for Survival depicts the three components essential to improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest – medical science, educational efficiency, and local implementation. While equally weighted from a ...
Are the RQI ALS and PALS Programs Designed for the Initial Learner?
The RQI ALS and PALS programs are designed with a diagnostic entry point to evaluate, differentiate, and provide a personalized experience for learners prior to entering the low-dose, high-frequency program ...
How Does RQI Integrate with Team Training?
The RQI program is designed to be a quality improvement program that maintains competency over time to achieve mastery learning. Because of this, the program strategically targets the deliberate practice ...
Is Cognitive Content Best Served in Smaller Doses?
The cognitive, knowledge-based portion of RQI is in a chunked, low-dose format with a diagnostic entry point. Learners must first demonstrate a foundation of knowledge before entering a perpetual learning ...
What is the Difference Between Training and Quality Improvement?
Traditional Resuscitation Training The 2-year “certification” or traditional CPR card is used to meet a requirement established by a hospital or governing body. Most often, this schedule of training requires ...