Hands-Only CPR Essay

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The Cardiac Ready Communities Program design affords communities with the knowledge, tools, skills, and motivation to improve cardiac arrest survival. The strategy highlights ten programs to advance a community’s efforts, supported by ten actions that incorporate concepts of leadership, teamwork, and planning. Collectively, these programs and actions help the community achieve implementation. One of these steps includes Hands-Only CPR (no rescue breathing) as well as the use of an AED to meet an electrical shock being delivered to the heart within three to five minutes promotes the cardiac chain of survival. Moreover, recent research shows that the average layperson is more likely to implement Hands-Only CPR. Correspondingly, the Cardiac …show more content…
This research-based evidence will be applied in aiding to inform and guide recommended interventions with a goal to improve the willingness of bystanders to initiate CPR and AED use in Bismarck and Mandan. Evidence-based practice is the gold standard for creating interventions within healthcare. A thorough search of current literature has been executed with the purpose of developing this project based upon current evidence-based guidelines and recommendations. In this section of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) project, deliberation of the manner in which the comprehensive literature review was conducted and highlighting specific evidence-based interventions drawn from the literature related to the PICO question is completed. The PICO question for this project is: In Bismarck and Mandan, ND, does providing a non-certified teaching session for Hands-Only CPR, use of an AED, and the Pulse Point app, increase the likelihood that a bystander will provide early resuscitation for an OHCA versus the current practice of acquiring