Abstract
Background:Effective postoperative discomfort management is an essential component to good quality of care, nursing a patient in discomfort is a challenging task requiring up-to-date knowledge, skilled interventions and attitudes that convey trust. Aim: Assess nurses' performance regarding postoperative discomfort among patients undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair. Subjects and Method: a descriptive research design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at the surgical in port said city (El-Zohoor Hospital and Port Said General Hospital)and Damietta. Subjects: A 6o convenient nurses participated in the study Tools: data were collected using three tools, Nurses' Knowledge questionnaire, observational check list for nurses' practiceand Nurses' attitude toward postoperative discomfort. Results: the result of study indicated that71.7% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge, 83.3 % had satisfactory practice, 66.7% of them had negative attitude Conclusion: most of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge while majority of them had satisfactory practice and more than two third of studied nurses had negative attitude. Recommendations: there are obvious needs for conducted an in service educational and training programs to improve nurse's knowledge, practice and nurses' attitude regarding postoperative discomfort among patients undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair.
Highlights
Abdominal wall hernia is a weakness in muscle wall of abdomen through which a part of the bowel or other abdominal structure protrudes
Figure(1): demonstrates 81.7% of the studied nurses not attending training program regarding post-operative discomfort among patient undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair
The present study revealed that majority of the studied nurses' (83%) had satisfactory of nurses' practice toward postoperative discomfort among patient undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair
Summary
Abdominal wall hernia is a weakness in muscle wall of abdomen through which a part of the bowel or other abdominal structure protrudes. Hernia is the protrusion of an organ through an abdominal opening in the muscle wall of the cavity that surrounds it. It may be congenital or may be due to the failure of certain structures to close after birth or may acquire later in life by some factors as obesity, muscular weakness, surgery or illness. Aim: Assess nurses' performance regarding postoperative discomfort among patients undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair. Recommendations: there are obvious needs for conducted an in service educational and training programs to improve nurse's knowledge, practice and nurses' attitude regarding postoperative discomfort among patients undergoing abdominal wall hernia repair
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