Medical center implements CPR quality improvement program

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center recently implemented the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program to help staff maintain CPR skills through more regular training. The subscription-based program mirrors a traditional CPR training program, but delivers it quarterly rather than every two years, according to a news release.

“RQI is intended to improve basic life support and advanced cardiovascular life support skills, while making training more convenient for healthcare providers,” the news release states. “Students can take the cognitive components of testing online and then test their psychomotor skills with real-time feedback by performing CPR at mobile simulation stations equipped with adult and infant mannequins.”

Because stations can be placed on hospital floors, healthcare providers can spend less time away from patients because they don’t have to leave work for training and testing.

Learn more about the problem of rapid skills decay and the solution that RQI offers at www.heart.org/RQI.