1. Introduction
cardiac arrest
CARDIAC ARREST
The purpose of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation/basic life support (CPR/BLS) instruction program is to equip healthcare providers, including laypeople, with the knowledge and skills needed to manage cardiac arrest emergencies until advanced medical support appears (The limitation of these current practices and the need to train and re-train more healthcare providers and laypeople necessitated the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), through its task force, the Education Implementation and Team (EIT), to advocate the use of the video self-instruction training method as an alternative to the traditional instructor-led BLS training more than a decade ago (In spite of the fact that previous studies had examined the effectiveness of these two training approaches, their findings reported mixed results on the acquisition and retention of CPR knowledge and skills. For instance, Hernández-Padilla et al. (Unlike in many industrialized countries, professional CPR/BLS training is not a requirement for continuously certifying hospitals in many developing countries or even a prerequisite for employing healthcare workers including nurses (In Nigeria, there are paucity studies conducted to determine whether video self-instruction CPR training has the same impact as instructor-led training on knowledge and skill. Till now, instructor-led training has been the most popular training method in Nigeria, both in training schools and in hospital settings. This study aims to add to the body of literature by comparing the effectiveness of a video self-instruction training method with. instructor-led CPR on knowledge and skill retention at pre-test, post-test, and follow-up at 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months among hospital nurses in north-western Nigeria.