Effects of educational program on Nurses knowledge and practice regarding management of peripheral vascular access at tertiary care hospital
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71395/Abstract
Background and Objectives: In the healthcare industry, effective communication is essential, but intern students frequently struggle with it, which can result in mistakes and unfavorable outcomes. To assess the level of knowl- edge and practice of nurses regarding the management of peripheral vascular access.
METHODOLOGY: The technical design included research design, setting, participants and tools of data collec- tion. A quasi experimental design was used pre, post and fallow up after 2 months to evaluate the effect of an educational program on nurses' practice regarding management of peripheral vascular acces.the study was conducted in the intensive care units (ICUs) and Medical Departments at Ali Fatima Hospital in Lahore city. Con- venient sample of all available nurses (50 nurses) divided into 36 nurses in I.C.U units and 14 nurses in medical departments who are caring patients undergoing peripheral vascular access working in the above mentioned units at the time of the study
RESULTS: Hedges' g and Cohen's d both show that there is a statistically significant and practically significant difference in knowledge between before and after the intervention. This firmly demonstrates the intervention's efficacy.
CONCLUSION: There was significant improvement in nurses’ practice between pre and immediately post program implementations. Also there was a significant relation among factors affecting nurses practice and demographic characteristics of all the participants nurses regarding mainly to years of experience, education level and age.
KEYWORDS: Healthcare, communication, nurses, Intensive care unit, knowledge
References
Abdelhakem, R. S. (2024). "Assessment of Nurses’ Performance Regarding Factors Contrib- uting to Complication of Peripheral Vascular Access Device in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit." Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice 3(7): 1-11.
AbdelRazik AbdelHakim, E., et al. (2021). "Effect of Blended Learning Program on nurses’ knowl- edge and Practice regarding peripheral vascular catheter insertion for adult patient." Egyptian Journal of Health Care 12(3): 2041-2053.
Abo Seif, H. S., et al. (2021). "EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON NURS- ES'KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MANAGE- MENT OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERIPH- ERAL VASCULAR ACCESS." Port Said Scien-
tific Journal of Nursing 8(3): 24-45.
Al-Naeli, K. F. and H. Hassan (2021). "Effective- ness of an Interventional Program on Nursing Staffs' Practices toward Prevention of Peripheral Intravenous Cannula Complications in Al-Diwani- yah Teaching Hospital." Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences 11(1): 182-192.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 International Journal of Healthcare Professions
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This is an open-access journal and all the published articles / items are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For comments ijhp@giu.edu.pk
