Samar Salah Eldin Mohamed Diab1,2, Shaimaa Ahmed Awad Ali1,3, Shaymaa Najm Abed1, Gehan Abd Elfattah Atia Elasrag1,4, Osama Mohamed Elsayed Ramadan1,5. 1. Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Science, Jouf University, Sakaka 2014, Saudi Arabia. 2. Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom 32511, Egypt. 3. Critical Care and Emergency, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. 4. Adult Health Nursing (Medical-Surgical Nursing), Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom 32511, Egypt. 5. Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Abstract
AIMS: assess nurses' knowledge and performance-related safe administration of oxygen (O2) therapy; apply an intervention program for nurses about standardized protocol for oxygen; and evaluate the effectiveness of standardized protocol for oxygen in improving nurses' performance and patients' health outcomes. DESIGN: a quasi-experimental study was used. SETTING: the current study was conducted at three hospitals in Sakaka City with totally different medical aid units (ICUs), CCUs, emergency care departments (ED), medical and surgical wards, pediatric care units (PICUs), neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), pediatric emergency care departments (PED) and pediatric inpatient\outpatient departments. SUBJECTS: a convenience sample of 105 nurses and 105 patients was divided into 55 patients in the control group who received routine care and 50 patients in the study group who received intervention. FINDINGS: 34.3% of studied nurses had poor knowledge pre-intervention compared with 17% post-intervention. Moreover, 33.3% of them had satisfactory knowledge pre-intervention versus 21% post-intervention. Only 5.7% of them had excellent knowledge pre-intervention, compared with 34.4% post-intervention. Concerning the complications of oxygen therapy, only 10.5% did not have complications in the control group versus 62.9% in the study group, 33.3% of the control group had cyanotic lips and fingernails pre-intervention, versus 7.6% in the study group; 10.5% had oxygen toxicity in the control group, versus 7.6% in the study group, with a highly statistically significant difference at p 0.001 for all. CONCLUSION: the current results of this study concluded that there was improvement in nurses' knowledge and practice related to oxygen therapy post-intervention. Moreover, when the standard protocol for safe oxygen therapy was used in a positive way, it led to better health for patients and fewer problems with oxygen therapy.
AIMS: assess nurses' knowledge and performance-related safe administration of oxygen (O2) therapy; apply an intervention program for nurses about standardized protocol for oxygen; and evaluate the effectiveness of standardized protocol for oxygen in improving nurses' performance and patients' health outcomes. DESIGN: a quasi-experimental study was used. SETTING: the current study was conducted at three hospitals in Sakaka City with totally different medical aid units (ICUs), CCUs, emergency care departments (ED), medical and surgical wards, pediatric care units (PICUs), neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), pediatric emergency care departments (PED) and pediatric inpatient\outpatient departments. SUBJECTS: a convenience sample of 105 nurses and 105 patients was divided into 55 patients in the control group who received routine care and 50 patients in the study group who received intervention. FINDINGS: 34.3% of studied nurses had poor knowledge pre-intervention compared with 17% post-intervention. Moreover, 33.3% of them had satisfactory knowledge pre-intervention versus 21% post-intervention. Only 5.7% of them had excellent knowledge pre-intervention, compared with 34.4% post-intervention. Concerning the complications of oxygen therapy, only 10.5% did not have complications in the control group versus 62.9% in the study group, 33.3% of the control group had cyanotic lips and fingernails pre-intervention, versus 7.6% in the study group; 10.5% had oxygen toxicity in the control group, versus 7.6% in the study group, with a highly statistically significant difference at p 0.001 for all. CONCLUSION: the current results of this study concluded that there was improvement in nurses' knowledge and practice related to oxygen therapy post-intervention. Moreover, when the standard protocol for safe oxygen therapy was used in a positive way, it led to better health for patients and fewer problems with oxygen therapy.
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Keywords:
nurses’ performance; oxygen therapy; patients’ health outcome; standardized protocol
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