An Educational Program Impact On Nurses’ Knowledge And Performance Concerning Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 16, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 356-365 PDF (402.11 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2016.195271 | ||
| Author | ||
| Elhaga Ibrahim Eldesouky Mohamed | ||
| Lecturer of Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Port said University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| An educational program for nurses about cardiopulmonary resuscitation is important and obligatory in-hospital and out-hospital where a qualified nurse can open airways, resuscitate, massage a heart and involve help to save a life by sustaining an ailing individual’s heart and brain for a brief time. So the study aimed to evaluate an educational program's impact on nurses’ knowledge and performance concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Design: A quasi-experimental research design. Setting: The study was applied in El-Tadamon Hospital. Subjects: This study was carried out on thirty-two nurses recruiting in an intensive care, emergency care, theater room, internal medicine, and surgery departments of El-Tadamon Hospital at Portsaid city. Two tools were used for data collection; the "Structured questionnaire sheet" which is consisted of twenty-one questions related to socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge about sudden cardiac arrest, sudden pulmonary arrest, and CPR. “Observation checklist” was concerned performance in cardiopulmonary resuscitation Results: This study indicated that there are statistically significant (P < 0.001) improvements immediately after program implementation and throughout follow-up concerning nurses’ knowledge and performance about cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Moreover, it had been also found that statistically significant (P<0.001) relation between nurses’ knowledge and performance, and there are no statistically significant associations between the changes in the scores of either knowledge and performance and socio-demographic characteristics. the program had succeeded in inducing statistically significant improvements in nurses’ knowledge and performance about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Conclusion: An educational program for nurses had a positive impact on their knowledge and performance concerning CPR. Recommendations: development and implementation of educational programs in all other port said hospitals. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| An educational program; impact; nurses’ knowledge; performance; cardiopulmonary resuscitation | ||
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