Longitudinal One Year vs Single Day NRP Training.

NCT04572048 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: MP-21-2020-2444
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 55
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 7

Brief Summary

The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) recommends providers renew their certification every 2 years. However, many Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in Canada face challenges of significant budget cuts in training and a large number of caregivers to train with a high turnover rate. This situation makes it difficult for managers and nurse educators to ensure up-to-date certification and competence for all clinical staff. In addition, considering that only 0.1% of newborns will require cardiac massage and/or epinephrine, health care professionals' exposure to critical events is low to insure maintenance of expertise. Furthermore, it is shown that there is a significant decrease in knowledge among learners who have undergone specific training after only 3 months. This is worrisome considering that some nurses will not renew their certification if the course is not paid for by the employer, or if they are not released from clinical duties to attend. While keeping in mind the various required components of NRP training: book reading, online exam, performance stations, Integrated Skills Station Assessment (ISSA) and simulations, we would like to assess the educational and financial impact of a new educational strategy developed as to allow more nurses to be retrained thus ensuring maintenance of their neonatal resuscitation expertise.

Conditions

Nurse Training in Neonatal Resuscitation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knowledge

  Integrated Skills Stations Assessment Score. The higher the score, the better the performance. Scores range from 0 to 100 %.

  1 year

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Confidence and behavior

  1 year

• Cost-efficiency

  1 year

Study Arms (2)

Single-day NRP training

OTHER

This group will follow the single-day NRP training course that is currently the standard. It usually takes 8 hours to complete this training course and the nurses are released from their clinical duty to attend the training course.

Other: Single-day NRP Training

Longitudinal one year NRP Training

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will follow the longitudinal NRP training course. The longitudinal NRP training course will consist of nine 30-minute modules that will be taught every 6-8 weeks over a period of one year. The nurses will attend the different modules of the training course at their work place and during their work shift so they will have to be released from their clinical duty only 30 minutes at a time.

Other: longitudinal NRP training

Interventions

Single-day NRP Training OTHER

NRP training course completed in one single day of 8 hours

Single-day NRP training

longitudinal NRP training OTHER

NRP training course completed over one year by attending nine 30-minute modules.

Longitudinal one year NRP Training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Newly recruited ( in the last 3 months) neonatal and delivery room registered nurses from level 2 and 3 perinatal centers

You may not qualify if:

• Registered nurses that have already completed a NRP training in the past.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ahmed Moussa: lead

Study Sites (7)

Cité de la santé de Laval

Laval, Quebec, Canada

Location

University of Montreal Health Center

Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3E4, Canada

Location

CHU Sainte-Justine, Dept Neonatology

Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1C5, Canada

Location

CHUL

Québec, Quebec, Canada

Location

Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1H 5N4, Canada

Location

Jewish General Hospital

Montreal, Canada

Location

Pierre-Legardeur

Repentigny, Canada

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 3, 2020
• First Posted: October 1, 2020
• Study Start: January 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2026
• Study Completion: January 31, 2026
• Last Updated: March 30, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (7)