Support in the “First aid in a team” hybrid training program to boost confidence and enable safe action
In what way and how does the trainer’s support within the “First Aid in a Team” hybrid device reinforce the learner’s perception of personal effectiveness in the field?
From September 2022 and with the support of the French Red Cross Foundation, Anne Muller has been conducting research into the conditions under which hybrid training can improve the efficiency of First Aid, in collaboration with the Training Unit of the French Red Cross Human Relations and Commitment Department. Since the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 epidemic, the French Red Cross has been rolling out a new hybrid training offer across its entire training catalog, including those dedicated to First Aid. Through both qualitative and quantitative analysis, focusing on both the learner and the system in which he or she is immersed, Anne Muller’s research provides an understanding of how learners appropriate e-Learning and/or face-to-face resources, the impact of their learning dispositions on learning, their sense of competence, their willingness to act and their situational acting.
Following on from this initial work, Anne Muller began a new research project in 2024, this time aimed at studying the training of first-aid teams, through the French Red Cross’ hybrid First Aid Team (FAST) training course. The aim is to determine how and to what extent the trainer’s support within the PSE hybrid system reinforces the learner’s perception of his or her own sense of efficacy in going out into the field, i.e. feeling competent and ready to take action, to carry out a first assignment. The study covers both remote and face-to-face coaching sessions, with the aim of correlating the learner’s perception of the trainer’s coaching posture during these two training sessions, and measuring the progression of the feeling of personal efficacy in training and in the field.
The research, both qualitative and quantitative, will focus on the learner’s perception of the trainer’s support within the system in which he or she is immersed. Two streams of research will be articulated:
– one at the micro level, the perspective of the social learner: the feeling of self-efficacy to go out into the field ;
– the other at the meso level: the trainer’s support posture.
Biography
Anne Muller has a PhD in Education Sciences, and is a lecturer at the Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l’économie et de la société (IDHES) Laboratory at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, where she teaches pedagogy in the fields of trade union and health training, and pedagogical and digital innovations. Her career path, which led to her appointment to the Conseil National des Universités for the Nursing Sciences discipline, began with years as a nurse. Trained in First Aid by the Red Cross, she went on to become a First Aid trainer in a nursing training institute and then in a health executive training institute.