Effect of Educational Guidlines on Nurses' Performance Regarding Patients' Safety Undergoing Bronchoscopy

Abstract

Background: A bronchoscopy is an essential tool for clinicians and health care providers treating patients with lung diseases. Aim of the study: evaluate the effect of educational guidelines on nurses' performance regarding patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: This study was conducted in chest department at Benha University Hospital, Qalyubiyah Governorate, Egypt. Sample Convenience sample of all available nurses (33). Tools: two tools were used to collect data for this study. Tool I: Nurses' structured questionnaire to assess nurses' knowledge related bronchoscopy and patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy. Tool II :Observational checklist regarding patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy to assess nurses' practice related bronchoscopy and patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy Result: 43.3% of studied nurses had a satisfactory level of total knowledge and practice about patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy pre educational guidelines implementation compared to 73.3 % of them at post educational guidelines implementation with (p value =0.012*)and clarifies that there was a positive and significant correlation between total nurses’ knowledge with their total practice regarding patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy post educational guidelines implementation with p-value of (0.023*), studied nurses had a competent level of total practice regarding patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy with (p value =0.048*)..Conclusion There was highly statistically significant improvement of nurses’ knowledge and total nurses’ practice regarding patients' safety undergoing bronchoscopy post implementing the educational guidelines .Recommendation :A similar study should be replicated on large sample and other places to generalize the findings.