Objectives
This study aimed to compare nursing students’ performance of CPR between students completing 1 semester of CC simulation teaching and students completing 3 semesters of teaching. Four components of CPR, including the compression depth, compression rate, time of correct frequency, and time of correct chest release, were assessed. CPR performance was evaluated during the end-of-semester examinations. The results may be helpful for evaluating teaching activities and reassessing the optimal ratio between CPR quality and teaching hours in didactic plans. Our hypothesis was that students who had completed a 3-semester CC course would show better CPR performance than students who had completed a 1-semester course.