Effect of Teaching Evidence Based Guidelines on Nurses' Knowledge and Performance to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia among Children | ||||
Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
Article 2, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2015, Page 16-33 PDF (516.78 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2015.211190 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Amina Mohamed Thabet1; Naglaa Gamal Eldien Abd-Elhafez2 | ||||
1Pediatric Nursing Department - Sohag University,Egypt | ||||
2Critical care and Emergency Nursing Department - Sohag University,Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAP) have been estimated to be the second most common nosocomial infections among children treated in intensive care units. Nurses have the most critical role in implementing most of the VAP preventive measures. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of teaching evidence based guidelines on nurses' knowledge and performance to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia among children. Quasi-experimental research design was used in this study. Convenient sample used in this study (forty nurses) at pediatric intensive care units. Two standard tools were used to collect the essential data. The main results were the majority of the nurses (87.5%) in the pre-test had unsatisfactory knowledge. The nurses' scores of knowledge were improved in the post-test after applying the guidelines and main self reported barriers were lack of knowledge, lack of skills and lack of resources. There is a strong positive correlation between degree of knowledge and degree of application (r= 0.62). The study concluded that the unsatisfactory knowledge of nurses was a barrier to be well applying the evidence based guidelines. Highly statistical significant differences were found between the nurses' knowledge in the pre-post test (P-value <0.001). The study recommended farther educational, training program and workshop to improve nurses' level of knowledge and improve the nurses' performance as well regarding the preventive measures of VAP among children | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Pediatric; Intensive Care Units; Nurses; Evidence based; Guidelines; Knowledge; Adherence; Barriers; Ventilator-associated pneumonia; prevention | ||||
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