Abstract

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery is one of the most common clinicalentities in daily orthopedic practice. Nurses should develop their own knowledge and qualityof nursing care that are needed to practice safely with patients post ACL surgery. Aim of thestudy: was to evaluate the effect of nursing educational program on nurse's knowledge andpractice regarding patients with anterior cruciate ligament surgery. Subjects & methods:Research design: Quasi experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting:This study was conducted in arthroscopy and sports injuries unit at orthopedic department atAssiut University Hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample of 44 nurses was included in thisstudy. Tools of data collection: Data collected by utilizing the designed interviewquestionnaire sheet consists of biosocial characteristics of nurses and assessment ofnurses' knowledge, observation checklist sheet consists of nurses' practice and instructions.Results: The results can be concluded that 93.2% of nurses had a poor level of knowledgeregarding ACL with Mean ± SD (7.57 ± 2.73). All of nurses (100%) had an inadequate levelpractice regarding care for patients post ACL surgery with Mean ± SD (133.07±30.60).It wasfound that there was a strong relationship (r =.838, P = .0001) between total knowledge scoreand total practice score regarding care for patients post ACL surgery. Conclusion: it can beconcluded that, Nurses` knowledge and practice regarding ACL surgery in orthopedicdepartment of Assiut University Hospitals improved. Recommendations: Continuouseducation and in-service training programs, encouraging nurses to read textbooks andperiodicals and to attend scientific meeting and conferences and similar studies on a largersample acquired from different geographical areas in Egypt should be done to achieve moregeneralizable results are recommended.

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