Percutaneous coronary intervention: Effect of a design nursing guideline on nurses' knowledge and practice
Shalabia El-Sayead Abozead, Hanan Abd El-Razik Abd El-All and Islam Mokhtar Mokhtar
Background: Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) need nursing care guidelines before, during and after this procedure.
Aim: Assess the effect of a design nursing guidelines on nurses' knowledge and practice for patients undergoing PCI.
Subjects and Method: A quasi -experimental (pre–posttest) research design was utilized.
Sample: 72 nurses who were working in the cardiology department at Assiut University-Orman Heart Hospital were included in this study.
Setting: The study was carried out in the cardiology department at Assiut University-Orman Heart Hospital.
Tools: Two tools were used; first was pre/post-test self-administered questionnaire sheet for nurses and second was designed nursing guidelines.
Results: There were a highly significant difference between total score of nurses' performance pre and post-test (immediately and after 2 weeks) after giving nursing guidelines about PCI (P =0.001).
Conclusion: The study findings revealed that level of nurses' Knowledge and practice improved after a design nursing guidelines application.
Recommendation: The study recommended that adequately planned in-service training programs related to nursing guidelines for patients undergoing PCI must be established to improve nurses’ performance.
Shalabia El-Sayead Abozead, Hanan Abd El-Razik Abd El-All, Islam Mokhtar Mokhtar. Percutaneous coronary intervention: Effect of a design nursing guideline on nurses' knowledge and practice. Int J Adv Res Nurs 2018;1(2):29-36. DOI: 10.33545/nursing.2018.v1.i2a.18
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