scholarly journals Assessment of Nurses Knowledge and Practice about Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters at Neonatal Intensive Care Units

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Omnia Saltah ◽  
Fawzia Abusaad
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Central Catheters ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

scholarly journals The effect of educational program on nurse's knowledge and practices about nasogastric tube feeding at neonatal intensive care units

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Amira Adel Mohammed ◽  
Safaa Abdel Fattah Abou Zed Abdel Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Nasogastric Tube ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Tube Feeding ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Nasogastric Tube Feeding ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Objective: This study was to assess the effectiveness of educational program on nurses’ knowledge level and their practices about nasogastric tube feeding at neonatal intensive care units.Methods: Settings: The study was conducted at Banha Specialized Pediatric Hospital and Banha University Hospital, from neonatal intensive care units. Research design: A quasi-experimental design. Sample: A convenient sample method of eighty three (83) as a one study group. Tools: The questionnaire format, the observation checklist and construction of educational program which were developed by the researchers to assessment for the knowledge and practice for nurses’ related to nasogastric tube feeding. The educational program was designed serves as a referral instructional for nurses.Results: Implied that the educational program was having a positive effect, on enhance nurses’ knowledge and practice related to nasogastric tube feeding at neonatal intensive care units.Conclusions: The present study recommended that an administrating a written protocol of nasogastric tube feeding to assure sufficient knowledge, and saved practices are really needed at neonatal intensive care units.

scholarly journals Impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Safaa Abdel Fattah Abou Zed ◽  
Amira Adel Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Nursing Guidelines ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Background: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a common syndrome in pediatrics primarily in infants and early childhood. Mechanical ventilation is one of the leading supportive modalities of management in the intensive care unit, but it conveys a lot of threats and complications. This study aimed to assess the impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates through the following: 1) Assessment of nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. 2) Designing, implementing and evaluating the impact of nursing guidelines on nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates.Methods: Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized to conduct this study.  Settings: The study was convoyed at Maternity & Gynecological and Children’s Hospitals affiliated to Ain shams University Hospitals from neonatal intensive care units. Sample: A convenient sample method of forty three (43) nurses, and fifty (50) neonates’ infants on mechanical ventilation was included in the study as a single study group. Tools: The questionnaire format, the observation checklist and implementation of nursing guidelines was assessed the nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. The implementation of nursing guidelines was premeditated as reference guidelines for nurses.Results: There were statistically significant differences between mean scores of the pre and post test as regards nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates.Conclusions: Application of the nursing guidelines has a positive outcome on improving nurses’ knowledge and performance regarding to prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates. Recommendations: The current study recommended that directing a written protocol for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia in neonates to support satisfactory knowledge, and competent practices are actually required at neonatal intensive care units.

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