Safety
Conditions
Keywords
Geriatric Patients, Critically ill
Brief summary
This study aims to determine the effect of intensive care nurses' training package on the safety culture of critically ill geriatric patients. Study hypothesis: Intensive care nurses who receive the proposed training package exhibit higher scores on critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture awareness than those who do not receive it.
Detailed description
The researchers will prepare the proposed nurses' training package program. The program will be planned to be carried out in 10 sessions that will be classified into; sessions regarding knowledge about the age-related changes affecting elderly patients that should be considered while caring for them and how to care for and maintain the safety of the critically ill geriatric patients. The researchers will prepare an illustrative PowerPoint presentation of each study program's session.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIntensive Care Nurses' Training Package
For the study group, the researcher will explain the method of the training package program application to critical care nurses as follows; firstly, the researchers will assess the nurses' roster, then the researchers will classify the subjects into groups in order to conduct the training package for a group of them while the other subjects taking care of the patients in the intensive care units and repeat the same session to the others in the same manner.
Sponsors
Alexandria University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to 30 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* aged 20 years and above. * provide direct care for critically ill geriatric patients. * work for at least 1 month in the unit.
Exclusion criteria
• not involved in patient care.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Intensive Care Nurses' Awareness of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patients' Safety Culture Questionnaire | 2 weeks | This tool will assess the intensive care nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture. It will include items that will be categorized into four subscales namely, intensive care nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practices of caring for critically ill geriatric patients and the critical care unit work environment. The nurses have to respond to the items using a 3-point Likert scale. The total score of the items will be summed and higher scores will indicate greater nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture. |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed