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NCT Number: NCT02965989

Effectiveness of a Online Training Program With a Clinical Procedure Standardized in Units of Nursing (CPSUN)

This study evaluates if the implementation of an online platform with procedures and protocols, improve the knowledge of professionals and can have a health impact related to decreased contamination of blood cultures.

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Key information

Conditions

Infection Control Preventive Measures

Age range

22 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre de Madrid

Madrid, 28041, Spain

About this study

This is a Quasi-experimental study, with parallel groups (experimental and control).

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an Online Learning Platform used by nurses to improve the results of a blood culture technique. The online learning tool is studied in two of four internal medicine units of a tertiary hospital in Madrid. These two units have similar characteristics of personnel, materials and structure. Both units are at a great distance, preventing a professional talk to each other.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Be nurse of the nursing unit selected.
  • Foreseeing to remain in service during the study.
  • Acceptance of voluntary participation in the study, prior information.
  • Signature of informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

  • Those professionals who for reasons beyond their control are transferred to other services or are on leave (in any form). They can not complete the various phases of the study.
  • Professionals who, for whatever reason, decide to withdraw their consent to participate in the study.

Treatment and study plan

Online training of a nursing technique

Procedure

The professionals with participant in the experimental arm receive an online training of a technique of extraction of blood culture and other arm the professionals no receive any training. They work as usual.

Other names: Elsevier Clinical Skills

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Contaminated Cultures in the Control and Experimental Group Before Intervention and After the Learning Obtained With the Online Training Platform.

    Time frame: assessed monthly, month 6 and 9 reported.

    The results obtained in each arm of the study are collected month by month in both groups (Experimental and control). The data for each month are summarized for 6 months, reporting the pre-intervention result (for both groups: experimental and control). The data collected during the 3 months following the intervention are also summed during the 3 months, giving a value at the end of this time (month 9 of the study).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Score on the Knowledge Test Related to Blood Culture Extraction Technique for Nurses (K-Blood-CT)

    Time frame: 6 month and 9 month of study.

    The improvement in the learning of the technique is measured with a test with 20 questions created ad hoc related of blood culture intervention (Blood culture collection knowledge test for nurses). The score ranges from 0 points (worst level of knowledge) to 10 points (best level of knowledge). The results can be divided into intervals: 0-2.99 very deficient; 3- 4.99 insufficient; 5-6.9 good; 7-8.9 notable; > 9 outstanding.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ignacio Zaragoza García

Other

Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

Registry information

Official study title

Effectiveness of a Online Training Program With a Clinical Procedure Standardized: "Blood Culture in Units of Nursing". Quasi-experimental Study

Acronym: CPSUN

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Nov 17, 2016
Registry last updated
Mar 30, 2021

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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