Bed Bath Practices Among Nurses Towards the Patients Admitted in Critical Care Units: The Role of Care Complexity

Abstract

Introduction: Every day bed-bath are normally accommodated most basically sick patients to improve their cleanliness, advance solace and improve wellbeing results. Fundamentally sick patients are at more serious hazard for skin colonization and contamination with multidrug-resistance pathogenic organisms. Hence, it is imperative to furnish basically sick patient with powerful close to home cleanliness particularly bed-bath as poor cleanliness may expand the danger of contamination. Methodology: quantitative observational descriptive study design was used to assess the nurses’ practices regarding bed-bath of critically ill patients. In order to assess nurses practiced, data was collected through the standardized checklist regarding bed bath. The check consists of 51 items. Results: The findings of this study revealed that there is poor practices of nurses regarding bed bath of critically ill patients. Conclusion: This study has described an important basic nursing care that is bed-bath practice in critically ill patient. Although, bed-bath is a routine nursing procedure, critical care nurses in the current study had poor skills and practices regarding it. This study has implications for clinical practice and nursing research. Bed-bath is a routine nursing care; many nurses understand that bathing is just for cleaning. Therefore, Inservice training program should be conducted Keywords: bed bath, practice, critical, patient. DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/95-02 Publication date: November 30 th 2021