NCT04559932

Paediatric Chronic Tracheostomy Care: An Evaluation of an Innovative Competency-based Education Program for Community Health Care Providers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project will evaluate a new course developed for nurses that provide care to children with breathing technology including breathing tubes and home breathing machines. The investigators plan to assess the nurses' knowledge and comfort of their ability to care for these medical technologies prior to the course as well as their ability to retain their knowledge 6 weeks and 6 months after course completion.

Detailed description

A structured program evaluation considering a hierarchy of outcomes is essential to determine whether the tracheostomy module is associated with improved knowledge and skills for CHPs (community health providers). This investigators proposed study is guided by the evaluation of knowledge acquisition and self-efficacy as a theoretical framework 24. CHPs' sense of self-efficacy or perceived capability in caring for this population is important to foster to potentially mitigate significant morbidity and mortality, while ultimately striving for safe, high-quality clinical care for these medically complex children.

Conditions

• Evaluation of HomeCare RN Respiratory Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Tracheostomy Training Course	A standardized competency-based education tracheostomy module has been developed by the investigator group in collaboration with Respiratory Medicine, Complex Care, Respiratory Therapy, Nursing Education, Family Advisory Network and the Learning Institute at SickKids. Instructional methods for the full module are based on principles of adult learning and evidence from the procedure education literature and include the use of interactive, small-group teaching, hands-on simulation-based learning stations with relevant equipment as well as a formal assessment of knowledge and skills using simulation. Pre-learning packages are sent to course attendees at the time of registration to facilitate higher level discussions on the day of the course. While investigators have rigorously developed the curriculum and evaluation measures, the course outcomes remain unknown.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-15
• Primary completion: 2019-09-30
• Completion: 2019-09-30
• First posted: 2020-09-23
• Last updated: 2023-11-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada