The Effect of Blended E-Learning Method on Students' Knowledge and Psychomotor Skills on Basic Life Support

The fact that Basic Life Support (BLS) training is factor determining survival necessitates the dissemination of BLS training. However, the fact that BLS training increases the workload of trainers and requires cost is one of the most important obstacles to the dissemination of this training. The search for new training methods with high efficiency and low cost continues in BLS training. Global guidelines recommend increasing quality of BLS and autonomous learning on BLS, and also encourage studies to develop methods related to this. The use of e-training methods in BLS training is reported to be cost-effective as well as reducing the burden of trainers. In studies investigating the effectiveness of e-learning methods in BLS training, simulation models with feedback were used to evaluate psychomotor skills of the training. In this study, it was evaluated that it would be beneficial to apply a blended e-learning method, which includes video demonstrations of theoretical and BLS psychomotor skills, to nursing students in a virtual classroom environment. In evaluation of the psychomotor skills of BLS training, it was thought that a simple simulation model (Tshirt Dressed Simulation Pillow (TDSP)) could be created in home environment by wearing the tshirt with the sternum and heart print on a standard pillow (40 X 60 cm) in the student's home. It is thought that psychomotor skills will be improved with repetitive BLS applications that students will make on this model in the home environment. Two weeks after blended training, the BLS application will be made and evaluated on the real model. This training and assessment method is a new method that will allow the evaluation of BLS knowledge and the development of psychomotor skills with autonomous learning, and the fact that there is no study on this subject in the literature constitutes the original value of this study. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate effects of the blended e-training method and TDSP model given