Assessment of Maternity Nurses’ Perception and Compliance with Safety Practices among Women with Severe Preeclampsia | ||
| Mansoura Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 27-38 PDF (663.28 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mnj.2023.320366 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Dalia Omran1; Hossam Eldin Mohamed2; Shaimaa Mohammed3; Hanan El sayed4 | ||
| 1Nursing Specialist at Central Menyte El Nasr Hospital | ||
| 2Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Medicine | ||
| 3Lecturer of Woman's Health and Midwifery Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, MansouraUniversity, Egypt | ||
| 4Professor of Woman's Health and Midwifery Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, MansouraUniversity | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: One of the top five primary causes of maternal and newborn death is severe preeclampsia and eclampsia. Aim: The aim of this study is to assess maternity nurses, perception, compliance and safety practices among severe preeclampsia women. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional design was used. This study was carried out at Menyte El -Nasr Hospital, Delta, Egypt. A purposive non probability sample was utilized. The study sample included 107 nurses chosen according to the inclusion criteria. Three tools were used; included structured interview questionnaire, nurses perception, compliance and safety practices among women with severe preeclampsia. Results: More than half of the studied nurses (53,50%) have moderately low perception, while nearly one third of them (29,29%) had high perception, more than half (50,47%) of them were non compliant with safety practices in sever preeclampsia cases. There are a highly statistically significant relationship between total nurses perception score and total compliance score among women with sever preeclampsia (p < 0.001). Also a statistically significant relationship was found between nurses perception of severe preeclampsia and their age, qualifications, years of experience and place of work (p < 0.001). Also a highly statistically significant relationship was found between nurses’ compliance and their age, qualifications, years of experience and place of work (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The current study questions were answered where, more than half of the studied nurses had moderately low perception of sever preeclampsia, also more than half of them were non compliant with safety practices among women with severe preeclampsia. Recommendation: The present study recommended advising nurses to attend training programs in forms of workshops, seminars as well as reviewing current nursing care techniques and providing specific policies, procedures or posters in work place about women safety practices in preeclampsia and severe preeclampsia and application of WHO standard recommendations to improve severe preeclampsia management. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Compliance; maternity nurses; perception; pregnant women; severe preeclampsia and safety practices | ||
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