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Precordial electrode placement accuracy by nurses in a large midwestern tertiary care hospital
Abstract:
A quality improvement project to increase the knowledge of nurses and the accuracy of electrocardiogram precordial lead placement among intensive care unit and progressive care unit staff was conducted using a single-group, pretest-posttest preexperimental design. Educational interventions based on the theory of planned behavior were developed from focus group data. A tip card, poster, and video were sequentially presented to more than 1,600 nurses. This resulted in statistically significant gains in both knowledge and accuracy (p < 0.02). This project supports the use of focus groups and the theory of planned behavior to guide education related to quality improvement.
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