About the Authors

Marilyn H. Oermann

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn H. Oermann, Michael A. Krusmark

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marilyn.oermann@duke.edu

Affiliation School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael A. Krusmark

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn H. Oermann, Michael A. Krusmark

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation L3 Technologies at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, United States of America

Suzan Kardong-Edgren

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tiffany S. Jastrzembski

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, United States of America

Kevin A. Gluck

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

Laerdal Medical Corporation funded the study (through the National League for Nursing) and also supplied the RQI mobile simulation stations and program for the study at no cost to the schools of nursing that served as training sites. MHO received a grant from the National League for Nursing to conduct the study. The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) funded the participation of MAK, TSJ, and KAG. Laerdal Medical was engaged in a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the AFRL during the execution of this study to test the utility of a personalized learning technology developed by AFRL as an extension of this research. Data on participants’ performance of CPR skills were collected through the RQI program and stored in HealthStream’s learning management system and the AFRL Research Laboratory’s MindModeling system. The National League for Nursing and Laerdal Medical were not involved in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; in writing the manuscript; nor in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The investigators had sole responsibility for implementing the study, collecting and analyzing the data, and writing the manuscript. There were no restrictions by the National League for Nursing or Laerdal Medical on the statistical analysis or publication of the findings. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.