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National Emergency Cardiovascular Care Education Models: Where Do We Go From Here?

Beth Mancini RN, PhD, NE-BC, FAHA, ANEF, FAAN

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American Heart Association 2020 Impact Goal

By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans

by 20 percent, while reducing deaths from

cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent.

We Tend To Teach As We Were Taught.

In The Future We Will Need To Move From Competence to Competency

• Competent - Paper trail affirms an individual has the necessary education and experience for the job.

• Competence - An individual’s assessed capacity to perform a defined function.

• Competency - The demonstrated ability to do a job consistently.

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The Challenge of Change……

The challenge isn’t getting new ideas into our heads….

It’s getting the old ideas out!

• Focus on What We Know Matters

• HIGH Quality CPR – Training to Mastery

• Using Clinical Event Data To Refine Education

• Low Dose, High Frequency Education

• JIT and Rolling Refreshers

• Using Products That Facilitate Performance

• Feedback Devices In Training and Practice

Education In The Future – Pre-Hospital and Hospital

• Tools that foster constant quality improvement

– Teach how to use debriefing

– Self-assessment tools remediation

• Sustained competency of clinical practice

– Mock Codes

– In-situ Simulations

• Flexible curriculums

– One size DOES NOT fit all

Education In The Future – Pre-Hospital and Hospital

Developing and Maintaining Core Competencies in CPR: Educational Implications

Time To Call The Code?

Slide Courtesy Baxter Larmon