Nurses' Performance Regarding Caring of Patients Undergoing Blood Transfusion

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Port-Said University

2 Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port-Said University

3 Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain-Shams University

4 General and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University.

Abstract

Background: Blood transfusion is an essential component of modern health care that
saves millions of lives each year, and it will continue to be so for many years to come.
Aim : the current study aimed to assess nurses‘ performance regarding nursing care of
patients undergoing blood transfusion. Subjects and Methods : A descriptive research
design was utilized in this study. The study was carried out at three hospitals affiliated to
the Ministry of Health (Port-Said General Hospital, Port -Fouad General Hospital, and ElZohoer Centeral Hospital). The study sample composed of 134 nurses. The data were
collected using three tools (a structured interview sheet for knowledge, nurses' attitude
questionnaire and an observational checklist for practice. Results: The results of the
present study revealed that there were highly statistically significant relations between the
studied nurses' total knowledge mean scores and total practice mean scores with their
educational level with p ≤ 0.001. In addition ,there was a highly positive statistically
significant correlation between the studied nurses' total knowledge mean scores and their
total practice mean scores with p ≤ 0.00 .Conclusion : Based on the results of the
present study, it can be concluded that, the majority of the studied nurses have
unsatisfactory level of knowledge and less than three-quarters of them have unsatisfactory
level of practice with more than the half of them have positive attitudes regarding nursing
care of patients undergoing blood transfusion. It was recommended that educational
training programs should be provided to nurses to improve their level of knowledge and
practice about nursing care provided to patients undergoing blood transfusion

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing
Volume 3, Issue 2
December 2016
Pages 166-182

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