Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI^®)

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a fundamental skill for all health care providers. Annual skills reviews and certification checks are the time-honored tradition for tracking and evaluating such skills. The assumption that CPR retraining in its traditional form is a sufficient measure of basic competence has been challenged by recent studies, and technical evaluations of the efficacy of CPR competence of certified nurses have surfaced significant gaps. Nursing schools and employers can bridge those gaps with Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI^®). [.