4Questions to Determine if Your CPR Training is Effective

Achieving student engagement is a fundamental challenge in any form of education, especially when the student is a beginner or is someone refreshing their skills. If you are an instructor in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), you've likely struggled to keep people engaged - especially when teaching laypeople.

Laypeople learning CPR for the first time are often surprised by the prescriptive training agenda necessary to impart a clinical skill. They are not prepared for the didactic training involved; instead, they expect to get right to practicing compressions on a manikin. The challenge for many instructors is that when students encounter this prescriptive approach, they may become disengaged.They can begin to focus just on passing the test. But will they leave confident to perform later? And, how will they perform later?

One of the most tried and tested models for measuring training effectiveness is the Kirkpatrick Model. Trusted by educators for decades, the Kirkpatrick Model can help you target opportunities for engagement by addressing four simple, yet targeted, questions.

在下面，我们概述了如何将此模型应用于您的培训并在每个课程中实现参与度。

According to the Kirkpatrick Model, it is important to gauge each student’s reaction to the material so that you can better identify what they need to stay active in the learning process.¹Where are the opportunities within your prescribed curriculum to make the training more interesting, useful, and challenging?

为了更好地吸引学习者，您可能会考虑包括激励游戏。游戏化或将与游戏相关的原则应用于学习的过程，已成为激励学习者参与的流行方式。²

When measuring the overall results of your training, the number of lives saved carries the most weight. Every minute and a half, someone in the United States goes into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital.¹⁰Four out of five times, the victim is at home.¹¹Because of this,it isn’t typically a paramedic or a doctor beginning CPR on a victim – it’s a layperson, a victim’s friend, a victim's loved one.

作为CPR教练，您有能力为挽救生命做好准备。凭借最吸引人的培训方法，积极的学习者态度以及正确的工具，学生可以像进入时一样让您的班级感觉像他们一样受到启发。