Educational Nursing Intervention: Its Effect on the Nurses’ Performance, Patients’ Daily Living Activities, Needs and Selected Visual Problems of Cataract Surgery | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 16, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 280-297 PDF (677.25 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.150268 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Wafaa H. Abdullah1; Amira Mohamed Abdel Azeem2; Amin Faisal Ellakwa3; Omima Said M. H. Shehata2 | ||
| 1Medical Surgical Nursing department, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt | ||
| 2Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt | ||
| 3Ophthalmology department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Cataract is the second cause of visual impairment and the first cause of blindness globally so inadequate nursing intervention lead to serious complications for the patient with cataract surgery. Purpose of the study: to evaluate the effect of educational nursing intervention on the nurses’ performance, patients’ daily living activities, needs and selected visual problems of cataract surgery. Setting: The current study was carried out at ophthalmology department and out patients’ ophthalamology clinic in Menoufia university hospital and El Ramad hospital in Shebin El-Kom district, Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of adult 25 nurses and 100 patients was divided into two equal groups (study and control). Tools of the study: Three tools for data collection; two tools for nurses (a self-administered questionnaire (tool I) and an observation checklist for nurses’ performance (tool II) and one tool for patients (an interview questionnaire, tool III). Results: There was a highly statistically significant improvement in total mean score of nurses’ knowledge from 27.56±3.11 pre intervention to 41.08±4.09 post intervention and after one week to 38.0±3.69 as a follow up. Also, there was a highly statistically significant improvement in the total nurse's performance mean score from 102.84±21.54 pre intervention to 245.44±22.84 post intervention and after one week to 239.84±23.05 as a follow up p < 0.001. Also, there were highly statistically significant improvements in meeting all patients’ daily living activities and needs with minimized visual complications after intervention (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Total good level of knowledge, satisfactory performance of the studied nurses significantly improved after implementing educational nursing intervention with better achievement of patients’ daily living activities and needs with major limitation in visual problems. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| cataract; nursing intervention; daily living activity; visual problems | ||
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