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Why Performance in CPR Training Matters
The Impact of Digital CPR Training
Digital health investments require both modernization and organizational transformation. Yet the approach to CPR training has not changed since being developed in the 1960s. Tragically, only one out of four patients in hospitals survive cardiac arrest and only one in 10 patients survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The difference between CPR and high-quality CPR is survival. The difference is making the transition to digital training.
The American Heart Association® (AHA®) digital resuscitation training portfolio, delivered by RQI Partners — a partnership between the Association and Laerdal® Medical — ensures healthcare providers are prepared to perform the highest quality CPR. Our approach of self-directed skills sessions dramatically increases providers’ competence and confidence to deliver high-quality CPR for every patient, every time. Our science-based technology allows healthcare providers to learn anytime, anywhere, increasing time spent with patients instead of in a classroom.
Going Digital is Backed by Science
The American Heart Association digital resuscitation training portfolio incorporates the latest American Heart Association science and Laerdal Medical technology for a learning experience that aims to achieve and verify mastery of resuscitation skills through the Resuscitation Quality Improvement® (RQI®) program. Learners reach this level of mastery only with more frequent, deliberate practice using the RQI Simulation Station.
Studies show that the conventional two-year basic life support training cycle is not optimal for achieving the mastery learning of high-quality CPR skills needed to help save more lives. Skills begin to decay in as few as three months after training. Quarterly, low-dose, high-frequency skills refreshers promote ongoing skill mastery and competence, ultimately preparing healthcare professionals to help save lives during a cardiac arrest emergency.
Going Digital is a Cost-effective Solution
We know that leveraging your existing technology investments and closely evaluating enterprise-wide transitions such as Docebo, Epic, and more are top of mind. Digital CPR training not only reduces administrative burden, but also helps you control staff education costs. The RQI program:
- Provides CPR training stations that are owned by RQI Partners and leased to customers as part of their contracts. RQI customers can contact the RQI Support Team directly for assistance with equipment replacement or maintenance.
- Reduces or eliminates labor expenses by assimilating sessions into the learner’s normal work schedule, without the need for replacement staff.
- Eliminates the cost of classroom instructors and course materials, books and cards.
- Allows for a new employee, or learner, to take on the license of that of a former employee upon exit, thereby controlling costs due to turnover, retirement, etc.
- Erases the need for IT staff to perform manual updates. New science and evidence-based practices are automatically updated through cloud-based software.
- Integrates RQI Analytics application, allowing administrators to view user compliance and performance analytics in real time.
Going Digital is the Gold Standard
Digital and simulation-led resuscitation training equips healthcare providers to deliver excellent and efficient CPR to patients. Our self-directed skills sessions boost confidence and competence, while our science-based technology affords flexibility. Healthcare providers can learn on their own schedules — increasing time spent with patients and decreasing time spent in a classroom. With highly realistic, lifelike simulation, the RQI program meets healthcare providers where they are to provide high-quality CPR to every patient, every time. The RQI digital CPR training program:
- Prepares staff to respond with lifesaving, high-quality CPR.
- Utilizes the resuscitation and education science from the American Heart Association featuring 2020 Guidelines and innovative True Adaptive™ learning . Also, with RQI, the platform automatically updates the training to reflect these Guidelines. Your team will be well on its way to CPR preparedness when the 2025 Guidelines are released.
- Provides access to the Resuscitation User Network (RUN), an online community where program administrators can access tools and resources to help them make the most of their resuscitation programs.
The CHRISTUS Health and RQI Partners’ Relationship
- CHRISTUS Health has already signed an agreement with RQI Partners, with several sites already participating in our programs.
- Our focus will first be on transitioning the Bossier location to the RQI digital CPR training program. Once this location is successfully launched, it will become the site for all other CHRISTUS Health hospitals to model, with an end goal of transitioning all U.S. hospitals to the RQI program by 2026. This initiative to “Going Digital” will allow your leadership team the transparency, control and standardization across the entire health system.
- Our Implementation Project Managers are committed to streamlining your program and platform setup to ensure a seamless transition to digital learning.
- You also have a dedicated Customer Impact team ready to support you throughout your resuscitation journey:
Colin Montgomery
Impact Director
Cindy Kugel, MS, BSN, RN
Senior Impact Manager
Carrie Burns, MSN, RN
Impact Manager
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Please contact your Impact Manager Carrie Burns to discuss the benefits of Going Digital with your CPR program.
