Effect of Designed Nursing Instructions on Knowledge and Attitude of Elderly Care Nurses’ and Assessment of Senior Friendly Hospital Criteria | ||
| Sohag Journal of Nursing Science | ||
| Volume 4, Issue 6, January 2025, Pages 181-192 PDF (656.32 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjns.2025.355876.1066 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Esteer Ibrahim Ghayth1; Martha Melek Labieb2; Sana Ramadan Abdel-Aal Hassan3; Hind I Ali* 4 | ||
| 1Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt | ||
| 2Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing Faculty of Nursing -Assuit University | ||
| 3Director Nurse at Cardiac and Digestive System Center, Sohag City | ||
| 4Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt & Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences in Wadi Addawasir, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, KSA | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: A senior-friendly hospital focuses on providing geriatric care through support and responds to a senior’s physical and cognitive needs and develops knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses and other health professionals to be fully maximum in their care. Aim: Evaluate the effect of designed nursing instructions on the knowledge and attitude of elderly Care nurses and assessment of senior-friendly Hospital criteria. Research design: One group pre-posttest quasi-experimental Setting: The study was conducted at the Cardiac and Digestive System Center in Sohag City. Sample: A simple random sample of 42 nurses was included. Data collection tools were Tool (I): Structured interview questionnaire about personal data and work-related factors. Tool (II): Knowledge assessment questionnaire. Tool (III): Multifactorial attitude of health care professionals toward older people questionnaire, Tool (IV): Senior-friendly hospital criteria checklist. Results: The mean scores of participants’ knowledge and attitude regarding elderly care had a high statistically significant difference (t = 29.806, p = 0.001) in pre- and post-training programs. More than half (59.5%) of the participant nurses precepted their hospital as a senior-friendly hospital with a strong positive significant relation between knowledge and participant nurses’ perception of senior-friendly hospital criteria (r=0.575, p=0.002). Conclusion: The application of designed nursing instructions is highly effective in improving the knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding care of elders, which enhances the hospital's chance to be a senior-friendly hospital. Recommendations Hospital managers should set a hospital policy on adherence to senior-friendly hospital criteria and training for all health professionals for providing elders’ care. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Attitude; knowledge; nursing instructions; and older; senior-friendly hospital | ||
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