Effectiveness of an Instructional Program on Nurses’ Performance toward Unconscious Patients’ Personal Hygiene in Intensive Care Unit at Teaching Neurosurgical Hospital at Baghdad City

Authors

  • Alaa Jawad Kadhim, Khalida Mohammed Khudur

Abstract

Personal hygiene is the daily care that the nurse performs with the intention of preserving the health, appearance and smell of the unconscious patient from deterioration and to reduce the incidence and spread of diseases and prevent complications

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of an Instructional Program on Nurses’ Performance toward Unconscious Patients’ Personal Hygiene at Intensive Care Unit.

Methodology: This is The experimental design was pre-experimental (a one-group pretest-posttest design). conducted on nurses who work in intensive care unit at Teaching Neurosurgical Hospital. started from the 31 of July 2019 to the July 15, 2021. A sampling technique that is not based on probability (purposive) of twenty-four nurses working in intensive care units in at Abstract: Teaching Neurosurgical Hospital were selected to achieve the objectives of the study. The study sample was exposed to an instructional program about caring for unconscious patients in neurosurgical ICU. To evaluate an instructional program's effectiveness on nurses’ performance a checklist which consisted of two parts: the study sample's sociodemographic characteristics for (11) items, Nurses’ Performance Form was composed of (10) domains and (160) Items. The instrument's validity was determined by a panel of (12) experts, while its reliability was determined by testing and re-testing on (5) nurses. The following SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 24.0 used to analyze the data and evaluate the study's findings: descriptive statistic (Frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation), and Inferential statistical (Paired t-test ANOVA).

Results:The results of the current study showed that all of the intensive care unit nurses who participated (24 nurses) in an instructional program for the performance of nurses about the personal hygiene of the unconscious patient had a low level of performance in the pre-test with a low statistical mean for all domains of the program and ranged from (1-1.5) means a statistical indication of their low performance before implementing the program. While, the Post-test for all domains were a highly significant mean ranging between (2.5-3) and at P ≤ 0.05.

Conclusions:The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences between the pre and post-test of the nurses' performance towards the personal hygiene of the unconscious patient. Therefore, we conclude from these results the positive impact of the program on the performance of intensive care unit nurses.

Recommendation:The implementation of the instructional program for the performance of nurses and inclusion in the nursing curriculum. Making participation in practical training courses for intensive care patients obligatory for intensive care nurses and for regular periods of each month and Increasing the number of training courses. Encouraging nurses working in intensive care to review reliable and practical scientific sources.

Published

2021-08-28

How to Cite

Alaa Jawad Kadhim, Khalida Mohammed Khudur. (2021). Effectiveness of an Instructional Program on Nurses’ Performance toward Unconscious Patients’ Personal Hygiene in Intensive Care Unit at Teaching Neurosurgical Hospital at Baghdad City. Drugs and Cell Therapies in Hematology, 10(1), 1522–1528. Retrieved from http://dcth.org/index.php/journal/article/view/297

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