Factors Affecting Nurses Performance Regarding Safety Measures for Patients Post Cardiac Catheterization

Abstract

Background: Cardiac catheterization is perhaps one of the most diagnostic and interventional tools available to the cardiologist today which does a comprehensive examination of how the heart and its blood vessels function.

The study aimed to evaluate factors affecting nurses performance regarding safety measures for patients post cardiac catheterization.

Design: A descriptive design was utilized.

Setting: Data was collected from cardiac care units at Zagazig University hospitals.

Tool of data collection: Two tools were used for data collection, First: Self-Administered questionnaire to collect personal characteristics of study nurses and questions to assess nurses knowledge regarding CC and factors affecting nurses performance regarding safety measures. Second tool was an observational Checklists to assess nurses practice regarding safety measures for patients post cardiac catheterization.

Study subject: The study was conducted on 50 nurses who worked in above mentioned setting.

Results: The current study revealed that 66.0% and 84% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory overall knowledge and incompetent level of total practices regarding safety measures for patients post CC. Also, 74.0% of the studied nurses had positive effect by the total factors related to patient safety after CC. conclusion, two thirds of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regarding safety measures for patients post CC, the majority of the studied nurses had incompetent level of practices regarding safety measures for patients post CC and less than three quarters of the studied nurses had factors affecting their performance. In addition, there is a statistically significant positive correlation between knowledge score and practice score. Also, statistically significant positive correlation between practice score and factors affecting nurses performance.

Recommendation Standard nursing procedures booklets should be available in cardiac catheterization units