Abstract
Background: Nurses have a variety of roles and functions associated with the patients' care undergoing cardiac catheterization. Nurses provide care of a patient before, during, and after cardiac catheterization procedure. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses' performance regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Subjects and Method: Adescriptive research designwas conducted. Setting: At cardiac catheterization unit at Port Said general hospital in Port-Said City and Al-Azhar university hospital in new Damietta city. Sample: A convenient sample of all available nurses (50) worked at previous mentioned settings. Tools: Three tools were used. Tool (I) Nurses' Knowledge Questionnaire. Tool (II) Observational Checklist. Tool (III)Nurses' Attitude Scale. Results: The result of present study indicated that more than half of studied nurses had satisfactory level of knowledgeand practice respectively (52%, 62%) while, most of them (68%) had positive levelof attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Conclusion: More than half of studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and practice while most of them had positive attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. In addition, there were no statistically significant correlation between total nurses' knowledge, practice and attitude scores. Recommendations: There are obvious needs for conducted an educational and training programs to improve nurses knowledge, practice and attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.
Highlights
Cardiac catheterization is considering one of the most and famous invasive procedures that can be used to evaluate coronary arteries circulations and determine the status of heart when blood filled the chambers through entering a catheter
Concerning total scores of nurses' attitude regarding to care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, this study reveal that most of nurses under study had positive attitude
RECOMMENDATIONS: After conclusion of the present study, many recommendations can be suggested as: o Continuous in-service training program to motivate the nurses working in cardiac catheterization unites to achieve the standard of nursing care given to such group of patient and take positive actions to cardiac patients
Summary
Cardiac catheterization is considering one of the most and famous invasive procedures that can be used to evaluate coronary arteries circulations and determine the status of heart when blood filled the chambers through entering a catheter. Nurses have a variety of roles and functions associated with the patients' care undergoing cardiac catheterization. Nurses provide care of a patient before, during, and after cardiac catheterization procedure. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses' performance regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Results: The result of present study indicated that more than half of studied nurses had satisfactory level of knowledge and practice respectively (52%, 62%) while, most of them (68%) had positive level of attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Conclusion: More than half of studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and practice while most of them had positive attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Recommendations: There are obvious needs for conducted an educational and training programs to improve nurses knowledge, practice and attitude regarding care of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization
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