Nurse-Led Educational Program on Practice of Asthma Management Using Global Initiative for Asthma Guideline

Abstract

The pivotal and nodal role of nurses in the healthcare industry is very vital for the proper management of asthma. To effectively intervene, nurses must be skillful in techniques used in asthma management which must be evidenced-based. The study objective is to use educational program to enhance nurses’ asthma management practice. This study adopted Quasi-experimental one group pre-post research design. Two government teaching hospitals in Rivers State were used in this study. A total number of 52 nurses were purposively selected in collaboration with nurse-leaders in each study setting. Checklist developed by the researcher and experts in the field of medical surgical nursing using modified Delphi method was used to collect data based on GINA guidelines pre- and post-educational program. Reliability test for the checklist using Cronbach’s alpha co-efficient yielded .89. Educational program was administered for six days respectively at the two study settings. Data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics (paired t-test) at level of 0.05 level of significance. Participants with good asthma management practice at pre-educational program were 36.5% while at post-educational was 80.8%. Paired-simple t-test analysis on the difference in asthma management practice before and after nurse led educational program using GINA guideline indicates that tcal = 51.23, df = 51, and ttab = 1.96 Since tcal>ttab at P<0.05, Hence, the null hypotheses was rejected. The study concluded that nurse-led educational program using adopted GINA guidelines enhanced practice of asthma management among nurses.