Promoting Knowledge and Safety Measures Practice towards Occupational Hazards among Critical Care Nurses Working Long Shifts: The Effect of an Intervention Study | ||||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 16, Volume 11, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2015, 2015, Page 233-252 PDF (1.19 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029203 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Abeer Mohamed Fakhry1; Magda Abd El Hamid Abd El Fattah2; Mamdouh Mouhamed El- Bahnaswy3; Mohamed Mansour Gwely4 | ||||
| 1Master degree - Lt. Colonel - Military Medical Academy- Cairo | ||||
| 2Assist. Professor - Nursing Administration Department- Faculty of Nursing - Cairo University, | ||||
| 3Major General -Military Medical Academy-Cairo, | ||||
| 4Professor of Public Health -Faculty of Medicine – Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Critical care nurses are at risk of occupational hazards as they working longer shifts, overtime, and extra shifts with some even extending to 24 consecutive hours shifts. Aim of the study: To assess the effect of an intervention study on knowledge and safety measures practice towards occupational hazards among critical care nurses ' working long shifts. Research Design: A quasi-experimental, repeated measures design with a one-group < br />Pretest/posttest was selected to test participants at 3 pre-specified time points (initial, immediately after training, and at 3months later after training). Setting: The study was conducted in a Military hospital. Subject: A purposive sample consisted of (56) critical care nurses Working long shifts who accepted to participate in the research and met the inclusion criteria was included in the study. Tools of data collection: Three tools were designed specifically to collect data of the present study ,the first tool composed of three main parts of self-administered questionnaire as follows: 1) demographic characteristics data, 2) educational needs assessment, 3) knowledge test (pre / post-test), second tool titiled Safety measures practices observational checklist and third tool titiled Participants' reactions questionnaire Results: A significant improvement in the studied participants’ total knowledge and safety measures practice towards occupational hazards score was found in the post educational intervention phases both immediate post intervention and follow up after three months later in comparison to the pre- educational intervention. Conclusion: The intervention tested in this study shows promise of being an effective approach to promot knowledge and safety measures practice towards occupational hazards among critical care nurses ' working long shifts. Recommendation: Mandatory regular educational intervention must be planned to overcome the weak points of knowledge and safety measures practice regarding all occupational hazards of critical care nurses, based on their needs, expectation. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Occupational hazards; Long Shift Work Hours; Knowledge; Safety Measures Practice; critical care nurses | ||||
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