Effect of Educational Program about Intra-Hospital Safety Transportation of Critically Ill Patients on Nurses' Performance and Patients' Clinical Outcomes | ||||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2022, Page 231-250 PDF (603.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2022.274267 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Gehan A Younis1; Shereen Ali2; Sabry Mohamed Amin3; Heba A. Al-etyazidy1 | ||||
| 1Assist. Prof. of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Head nurse and Member of Infection Control Units at Tanta university hospitals , Egypt | ||||
| 3Professor of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care and Pain Management, Faculty of medicine, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| bstract: Intra-hospital transportation of critically ill patients within the hospital is potentially dangerous and creates a challenging and highly stressful work, even for experienced nurses because of the severity of the illnesses and the need for continuous monitoring during transportation. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of educational program of intrahospital safety transportation of critically ill patients on nurses' performance and patients' clinical outcomes. Setting: This study was conducted at Surgical Intensive Care Units in Emergency Hospital of Tanta Main Hospitals, Egypt. Method: A quasi-experimental design was utilized in this study. Sample of the study consisted of all nurses (70) who are working in the ICU and convenience sampling of 60 critically ill patients, which divided equal into 30 patients of both study and control groups. Tools: Three tools was used to collect data, Tool (1) Socio demographic date of studied nurses, Tool (II) Structured Interview Schedule and Tool (III) patient' clinical outcome. Results: It was observed that vast majority (96%) of the studied nurses reported low level of total knowledge pre implementation of educational program compared with the majority (84%) them reported high level of knowledge post implementation of educational program. Additionally, the majority of the studied nurses (88.6%) had unsatisfactory practice level compared with vast majority (92%) of them had satisfactory level of practice post educational program and there were high statistical improvement on critically ill patients’ clinical outcomes during intra-hospital transportation. Conclusion: A well designed safe intra-hospital transportation education program could positively affect the nurses' knowledge and practice and decline the patients' adverse events and complication during transportation Recommendation: It was recommended that encouraging nurses' in-service training program can improve critically ill patients' safety during intra-hospital transportation. | ||||
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