Instruction Program for Nurses Knowledge about Applying the Communication Strategies (SBAR) in Critical Care Units

Abstract

Background: Effective communication can improve patient care and safety by ensuring complete and correct information transmission and preventing misrepresentation and misinterpretation of patientcentered data. Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) is the one of the most effective communication strategies that used in transmitted the clinical information between the health professionals.Objectives of the Study: Present study aims to determine the effectiveness of Instruction program on nurses' knowledge regarding communication strategy (SBAR) and find out the association between the effectiveness of instruction program and nurses' level of education, year of experiences, year of experiences in critical units and training course. Methodology:A pre-experimental study design was carry out in the critical care units of Imam Al-Hussein Medical City at Holy Karbala City between the periods 17 th of September 2020 to 25 th of May 2021. A non-probability (purposive) sample of (25) nurses were selected based on the study criteria. Results:The results of the study indicated that there were high statistically differences between the pre and post-test of the instruction program related to the communication strategy. The study found a high statistically significant relationship between the effectiveness of the instruction program related to the communication strategy, educational level, training courses for nursing documentation, years of experience in nursing, and years of experience for nurses in the critical care units. Conclusion:The study concluded that the instruction program had a positive eefect on nurses' knowledge concerning communication strategy (SBAR).Recommendations: Testing the current program on a wide group of health-care providers in hospitals.

Effects of Handover Education Using the Outcome-Present State Test (OPT) Model and SBAR in Nursing Students: A Quasi-Experimental Design

“…These results suggest that the quality of communication was improved by applying the SBAR ( 27 ), and clinical competency and communication confidence improved by applying the OPT model. This result is similar to previous study ( 28 ), the SBAR step-by-step education program based on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy for nursing students was found to improve communication ability in another study ( 19 ).…”