Effect of Educational Program on Nurses’performance Regarding Patients with Acute Pancreatitis

Abstract

Background: Acute pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas that results in auto-digestion by its own pancreatic enzymes. The educational program is considered to be an important means to provide nurses with theoretical and technical information needed to acquire skills and competencies necessary to continually improve nursing practice. Objective: Theaim of this study was to evaluate effectof educational program on nurses 'performance regarding patients with acute pancreatitis. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used to conduct this research. Setting: The study was conducted in intensive care unit at Assiut University Rajhy Hospital for Liver. Subjects: All available nurses about 40 nurses. Tools: Data were collected using: tool1 nurse's knowledge assessment questionnaire, tool II nurse's observation checklist. The Results revealed that majority of the nurses their age less than 40 years old, with mean age of 25.98±6.46, female, where about 52.5% of study nurses had married. The majority of nurses had unsatisfactory total knowledge pre education program. It improved immediately post education program. Conclusion: The study concluded that the education program lead to significant improvement in nurses' knowledge and practice about acute pancreatitis. Recommendation: Continues educational nursingprogram about care of acute pancreatitis patients.

Effect of Educational Guidelines on Nurses' Performance for patients with Chronic Pancreatitis

“…Most of patients' records in the post-intervention phase were ranked 3 and above, which reflects improvement. This is in agreement with, Mohammed et al, (2019) who reported that there was statistically significant improvement in nursing staff total mean pancreatic pain score immediately after implementation of the educational program. Regarding the correlation between demographic characteristics and total knowledge score of the studied nurses.…”

“…This is because the educational guidelines were effective and influential and brought about progress in nurses' practices, and they were needed for an educational program. In the same line, supporting our results Mohammed et al, (2019) who noted that there was statistically significant improvement in nursing staff practice of studied nurses immediately after implementation of the educational program. Regarding total mean score of total pancreatic pain, this result showed that nurses assess the total mean of pancreatic pain and noted reduction from ±SD (23.2±6.8) pre intervention to ±SD (12.52±6.1) and ±SD (3.43±1.53) immediately and after intervention respectively for the study group with statistically high significance difference P= <0.001.…”

“…Also, due to no pre-employment orientation, courses increased workload which may hinder the ability to read and upgrade their knowledge. This results with the same line with Mohammed et al, (2019) who reported that the level of practice regarding acute pancreatitis of the majority of the studied nurses generally was poor before implementing of educational program. Also, the present study showed that statistically significant improvement in practice of studied nurses was observed in the score of total nurses before, immediately and after one month of the program as p= <0.001.…”

“…Also, the shortage of nurses' number that didn't let them have time to attend courses or lack of awareness about the effect of training courses on performance of the nurses, resulted in poor knowledge in caring of patient with chronic pancreatitis. This results with the same line with Mohammed, Mohammed, and Mehany, (2019), who reported that the level of knowledge about acute pancreatitis of the majority of the studied nurses generally was poor before implementing of educational program. Moreover, regarding nurses' knowledge, the result revealed that more than three quarters of the studied nurses had high level of knowledge immediately and after one month post program implementation.…”

“…regarding chronic pancreatitis, the majority of the studied nurses did not have previous training regarding chronic pancreatitis. Supporting this finding Mohammed et al (2019) who noted that all studied nurses did not have previous training regarding acute pancreatitis. On the other hand, these results are against Mamdouh, Mohamed and Mohamedm, (2022) who reported that less than two thirds of nurses had pervious training program before implementation of educational program.…”