Revalidation of game for teaching blood pressure auscultatory measurement: a pilot study.

Objective: To adapt a pre-existing educational game, making it specific to the teaching of blood pressure auscultatory measurement, and to apply this game in a pilot study.

Method: The original game cards were altered by the authors and submitted to content validation by six experts in the field. After redesigns, the game was applied to 30 subjects, who answered a questionnaire (pre-test and post-test) on auscultatory measurement.

[Theoretical training for nurses in cardiac arrest attendance].

to apply a theoretical qualification program for nurses in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and compare the theoretical knowledge group-A-control with group-B-experimental. This program comprised three stages: Stage-I, evaluation pre-theoretical qualification; Stages-II and III, evaluation of the recent (one week after stage-I) and later (three months after stage-I) qualification. The sample was composed of 21 nurses in Group-A and 38 in Group-B.