COVID-19 a highly infectious disease threatened the world and created a big challenge to healthcare systems and their personnel worldwide. Nurse plays very important role in infection prevention and control, safeguard the community and providing care at this critical time. Aim of this study is evaluate the effect of an education program on nurses' performance regarding COVID-19. Design: A quasiexperimental design was used. Setting: this study was conducted in surgical and obstetric units at Beni-Suef University Hospital. Sample: all nurses (n = 40) working at surgical and obstetric units. Tools: Two tools were used a selfadministered questionnaire to assess knowledge and observational checklist to assess practice. Results: preprogram; the majority of the nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge and practice regarding COVID-19 (87.5% and 90%respectively). A significant improvement was found immediately post-program (90% and 92.5% respectively) while this improvement lowered lightly post three months at follow up (77.5%and 80% respectively). Conclusion: A statistically significant improvement in nurses' performance had got after implementation of the program which confirming the study hypothesis. Recommendation that the necessary of continuous in-service training programs about COVID-19.
Background: Despite the growing demand for blood and its products, some people, particularly the youth, are reluctant to donate blood. Aim: To evaluate the effect of the orientation program on undergraduate nursing students' performance regarding blood donation. Subjects and method: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used to achieve the aim of this study. Setting:The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt on the undergraduate nursing students. Subjects: The sample consisted of convenient 900 undergraduate nursing students selected from the previous setting. Tool: A self-administered related questionnaire was designed using an electronic survey (Google form) which included four parts: Part I: undergraduate nursing students' demographic characteristics, Part 2: undergraduate nursing students' knowledge regarding blood donation, Part 3: undergraduate nursing students' attitudes regarding blood donation, Part 4: undergraduate nursing students' practices regarding blood donation. The link to the survey was sent to the respondents via WhatsApp groups. Results: The study result revealed that more than onethird of studied undergraduate nursing students had a poor level of knowledge, and more than half of them had an inadequate level of practice about blood donation before the implementation of the program. The majority of students had a good level of knowledge and most of them had a satisfactory level of practice after implementing the program. There was a highly statistically significant difference and improvement in undergraduate nursing students' knowledge, attitude, and practice after program implementation than pre-implementation. Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that orientation program had positive effects on improving undergraduate nursing students' performance regarding blood donation. Recommendations: The study recommended organized blood donation orientation program are required to increase undergraduate nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward blood donations.
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