Confidence-weighted Testing as an Impactful Education Intervention within a Pediatric Sepsis Quality Improvement Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Confidence-weighted testing assesses learners' beliefs about their knowledge and skills. As part of a hospital-wide quality improvement initiative to enhance care for pediatric patients with suspected sepsis, we developed a novel intervention using confidence-weighted testing to identify institutional areas of misinformation and knowledge gaps while also providing real-time feedback to individual learners.

Methods

We developed pediatric sepsis eLearning modules incorporating confidence-weighted testing. We distributed them to nurses, advanced practitioners, and physicians in emergency departments and acute care/non-intensive care unit inpatient settings in our hospital system. We analyzed completion and response data over 2 years following module distribution. O

SUBMITTER: Nathaniel ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8389944 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature