Hybrid education icreases nurses’ skills in management of deteriorating patients: A quasi-experimental study.

Abstract

Despite the importance of early recognition and response to clinical deterioration, previous studies have identified that nurses will delay escalating care and activating the Rapid Response Systems when they perceive they are in an environment where hierarchy is involved, or that there is a risk of being reprimanded or socially ridiculed. By changing the curriculum around Basic Life Support to include Crisis Resource Management principles there is the potential to improve patient outcomes, teamwork and establish a positive organisational culture that emphasises the importance of recognition and response to clinical deterioration.