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UNLABELLED: Ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachicardia without pulse are the most frequent causes of suddenly death, therefore, it was considered that training hospitals and healthcentre nurses in identifying arritms and using properly the defibrilators was necessary. It was made by practical-theoric courses. The main aim of this study has been to know does the nurses value these type of courses and its repercussion on their level of knowledge. This is a descriptive study. The course consisted of 2 parts, one theoric and other practical. The valuation was made with a practical exam (A, B o C, being C a fail) and the other was written. To obtain the certificate of the course, you need to get at least 70% in the written part, and an A or a B in the practical exam. An exam was set at the beginning of the course and other at the end of it, in order to see the improvement. To value the course, we passed one anonimous poll, for this, it was used one scale from 1-5. we have gone 8 courses with 226 pupils, and the 74.3% of them, have passed. The level of knowledges has considerably increased p < 0.0001 the level of satisfaction was 4.7 0.5, of the teachers was of 4.6 0.5 and theirs enthusiasm on the course was 4.7 0.6. For them, theirs level of theorical and practical knowledges were 2.7 0.7 and 2.5 0.7 respectively. CONCLUSIONS: 1) Nurses have had a great interest in this course. 2) After the course, the level of knowledge was increased. 3) The califications of the pupils on the teachers and the course has been high. 4) The training of nursery in RCP and early defibrillation is absolutely essential as it is shawn in their low level of theorical and practical knowledge.