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- Title
Impact of Offering Continuing Respiratory Care Education Credit Hours on Staff Participation in a Respiratory Care Journal Club.
- Authors
Hinkson, Carl R.; Kaur, Nirpalinder; Sipes, Michael W.; Pierson, David J.
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Journal clubs are employed by education and healthcare institutions to facilitate learning about study design, to teach critical reading of the literature, and to help trainees and practitioners keep abreast in their fields. Our respiratory care department initiated a journal club that was open to all respiratory therapists in the community. The articles were selected by the journal club coordinator and posted on the club's web site. However, attendance remained poor despite changes in venue, time, and day of the week. In Washington State, respiratory therapists are required to obtain continuing respiratory care education credits (CRCEs), so we hypothesized that offering American Association for Respiratory Care CRCEs for journal club attendance would increase participation. METHODS: We measured journal club attendance during the 8 months preceding and the 8 months following introduction of CRCE credit for journal club attendance. The journal club meetings were held during same time frame, on the same day of the week, and in the same geographic region during the pre-CRCE and CRCE periods. Advertising for the journal club was the same during both periods as well. RESULTS: Pre-CRCE attendance ranged from 5 to 8 persons per meeting (mean ± SD 6 ± 1 persons), and CRCE-period attendance ranged from 7 to 10 persons (mean ± SD 8 ± 1) (P = .01). CONCLUSIONS: Providing CRCE credits for attendance was associated with increased participation in our departmental journal club.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (State); ANALYSIS of variance; CONTINUING education; JOURNAL writing; HOSPITAL respiratory therapy services; RESEARCH methodology; RESPIRATORY therapists; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; T-test (Statistics); TEACHING methods; PRE-tests &; post-tests
- Publication
Respiratory Care, 2011, Vol 56, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0020-1324
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4187/respcare.00952