Key result
Social media education improves nurses' STEMI recognition scores by ~21%.
Why the study?
Early identification of STEMI on ECGs is vital to patient outcomes, requiring nurses to possess the knowledge to quickly recognize it.
Does an online educational intervention delivered via social media improve nursing knowledge of STEMI recognition on 12-lead ECGs?
Does an online educational intervention delivered via social media improve nursing knowledge of STEMI recognition on 12-lead ECGs?
Absolute Event Rate: 9.11% vs 7.53%
p-value: p=.000
An online educational intervention delivered via social media significantly improved nurses' knowledge of STEMI recognition on 12-lead ECGs.
Supports integrating social media education into nursing STEMI training; extends evidence for digital ECG interventions in clinical education.
Background: Early identification of ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) on electrocardiograms (ECGs) is vital to patient outcomes. Therefore, nurses need to have the knowledge to quickly recognize this lethal dysrhythmia. Method: The purpose of this pretest–posttest study was to increase nursing's knowledge on accurate and timely identification of an STEMI using an online educational intervention delivered via social media. Results: This study included a convenience sample of 31 RNs employed in an urban hospital in the Midwest. The mean score on the pretest was 7.53 of 10 ( p = .028), which improved to 9.11 of 10 ( t = 6.273; p = .000) on the posttest. Conclusion: The use of social media to reach adult learners may be an effective means of delivering continuing education. Additional work is needed to further explore the use of educating bedside nurses on the importance of using the 12-lead ECG as a screening tool. [ J Contin Educ Nurs. 2019;50(10):475–480.]
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Hernandez et al. (2019) studied Nursing knowledge of ST-elevated myocardial infarction recognition (n=31). Online educational intervention delivered via social media vs. Pretest (baseline knowledge) was evaluated on Knowledge score on accurate and timely identification of a STEMI (out of 10) (p=.000). An online educational intervention delivered via social media significantly improved nurses' mean scores on STEMI recognition from 7.53 to 9.11 out of 10 (p=0.000).
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