Effect of Instructional Guideline on Nurses' Performance Regarding Weaning of Patients from Mechanical Ventilation | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 105, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 1399-1411 PDF (346.04 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.263010 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fatma Mostafa Mahrous; Jackleen Faheem Gendy | ||
| Assistant Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Weaning a patient from mechanical ventilation (MV) and eventually to extubation is a challenge for critical care nurses who play a vital role in assessing a patient’s readiness for weaning. Aim: Evaluate the effect of instructional guideline on nurses' performance regarding weaning of patients from MV. Hypothesis: The implementation of instructional guideline will have a positive effect on nurses' performance through improvement of nurses' knowledge and practice regarding weaning of patients from MV. Design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Intensive care units in Ain Shams University Hospital. Subjects: A Convenient sample of all available (40) nurses who working at the previously mentioned setting. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection I. Nurses' Self- administered Questionnaire: It included two parts: Part 1: Nurses' demographic characteristics, Part 2: Nurses' knowledge regarding weaning of patients from MV. II. Nurses' practice observational checklists to assess level of nurses' practice regarding weaning of patients from MV. Results: the mean age for nurses under study was 30.9±8.8, 47.5% of them were within the age group between 25 to ≤35 years. 62.5% of the nurses were female, 65% were married. 42.5% of the nurses were had diploma nursing. There was a positive correlation with highly statistically significant relation between the total score of nurses' knowledge and practice with marked improvement after implementation of instructional guideline about weaning of patients from MV. Conclusion: there was a statistically significant improvement after instructional guidelines implementation regarding nurses' performance related to weaning of patients on ventilators. Recommendation: Critical care units in hospitals should be equipped by Arabic instructional guideline for nurses' performance weaning for patients on ventilators to improve the quality of patient’s care and decrease the complications for this patient | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Instructional guideline; Weaning; mechanical ventilation and nurses' performance | ||
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