Effect of Educational Program about Intra-Hospital Safety Transportation of Critically Ill Patients on Nurses' Performance and Patients' Clinical Outcomes

Younis, Gehan A; Ali, Shereen; Amin, Sabry Mohamed; Al-etyazidy, Heba A.

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2022.274267

Effect of Educational Program about Intra-Hospital Safety Transportation of Critically Ill Patients on Nurses' Performance and Patients' Clinical Outcomes

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assist. Prof. of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt

² Head nurse and Member of Infection Control Units at Tanta university hospitals , Egypt

³ Professor of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care and Pain Management, Faculty of medicine, Tanta University, Egypt

10.21608/tsnj.2022.274267

Abstract

bstract: Intra-hospital transportation of critically ill patients within the hospital is potentially
dangerous and creates a challenging and highly stressful work, even for experienced nurses
because of the severity of the illnesses and the need for continuous monitoring during
transportation. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of educational program of intrahospital safety transportation of critically ill patients on nurses' performance and patients' clinical
outcomes. Setting: This study was conducted at Surgical Intensive Care Units in Emergency
Hospital of Tanta Main Hospitals, Egypt. Method: A quasi-experimental design was utilized in
this study. Sample of the study consisted of all nurses (70) who are working in the ICU and
convenience sampling of 60 critically ill patients, which divided equal into 30 patients of both
study and control groups. Tools: Three tools was used to collect data, Tool (1) Socio
demographic date of studied nurses, Tool (II) Structured Interview Schedule and Tool (III)
patient' clinical outcome. Results: It was observed that vast majority (96%) of the studied nurses
reported low level of total knowledge pre implementation of educational program compared with
the majority (84%) them reported high level of knowledge post implementation of educational
program. Additionally, the majority of the studied nurses (88.6%) had unsatisfactory practice
level compared with vast majority (92%) of them had satisfactory level of practice post
educational program and there were high statistical improvement on critically ill patients’ clinical
outcomes during intra-hospital transportation. Conclusion: A well designed safe intra-hospital
transportation education program could positively affect the nurses' knowledge and practice and
decline the patients' adverse events and complication during transportation Recommendation: It
was recommended that encouraging nurses' in-service training program can improve critically ill
patients' safety during intra-hospital transportation.