Nurse's Performance Regarding Prevention of Deep Venous Thrombosis among intensive care patients | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 47, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 657-666 PDF (285.2 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.253141 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Walaa Ibrahiem Mohammed1; Manal salah2; Rasha Mohamed3 | ||
| 1Clinical supervisor at Beni Suef university hospital | ||
| 2Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Department | ||
| 3Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing Department Ain Shams University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The Nurses have very important role in preventing Complication through careful assessment of venous circulation of the lower extremities for early detection of deep venous thrombosis. Aim of the study: This study aimed to assess nurses performance regarding prevention of deep venous thrombosis among intensive care patients. Design: A descriptive design was utilized for the conduction of this study. Setting the study was carried out in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Beni–Suef University hospital. Study subject: A convenience subject of all available nurse's (N=50). Data collection Tools: I - self – administrating questionnaire which composed of nurses demographic characteristics' and nurses’ knowledge, II nurses' practice observational checklists, which divided two parts include ,initial assessment as :wells score for predicting DVT and, clinical risk factors to assess the risk factors , venous clinical severity score to assess the severity of venous thrombosis for prevention of deep venous thrombosis. Results: Revealed that, two thirds of the studied nurse's had unsatisfactory level of knowledge about prevention of deep venous thrombosis, and less than half of them had satisfactory level of knowledge, more than half were adequate level of practices regarding prevention of deep venous thrombosis, and practice include wells score more than half adequate level of practice and clinical severity score two thirds in adequate level of practice clinical risk factors majority of nurses inadequate level of practice. Conclusion: More than two third of studied nurse's had un satisfactory level of knowledge and more than half of the studied nurse's had adequate level of practices regarding prevention of deep venous thrombosis. Recommendations: Further research is recommended to evaluate the effect of training program on nurse's performance regarding prevention of deep venous thrombosis. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nurses performance; prevention; Deep vein thrombosis; Intensive care patients | ||
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