Effectiveness of Nursing Education of Pre-Operation Cardiovascular Patients in Taiwan

Monday, 7 July 2008
Shu-Chiu Li, RN , Nursing Department, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Keelung, Keelung City, Taiwan
Hsiao-Hui Lee, RN , Nursing Department, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Keelung, Keelung City, Taiwan
Chih-Wei Nien, RN , Nursing Department, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Keelung, Keelung City, Taiwan

Learning Objective 1: The learner will able to understand increasing nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients program in surgical intensive care unit.

Learning Objective 2: The learner will able to understand the factors of increasing nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients program in surgical intensive care unit.

In recent years as a result of the medical technology progress and sickness severity increase,

heart sickness accepted the heart surgery sickness to rise year by year. The purpose of the project was to examine nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients on surgical intensive care unit in the in the north of Taiwan. This project was conducted at a teaching hospital from Jan.10, 2006 to Aug. 20, 2006.

The quasi-experimental method with the one sample pretest and posttest design was used the project. Researchers developed increasing nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients program that included in-service education, in front of the establishment heart sickness technique accepts the surgical department intensive care unit nursing instruction standard work flow, in front of the construction heart surgery nurses

measures and so on instruction handbook, promotes in front of the surgical department intensive care unit heart sickness technique to nurse the instruction accuracy.

Following increasing nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients program application, the results showed that: 1) nursing staff in office education and training percentage participating 100%. 2) In front of heart sickness technique nurses the instruction accuracy, the average total score 14.07 (70.38%), the promotion is 18.38 points (91.89%). 3) completes the nursing instruction standard workflow. 4) sets up the nursing instruction content handbook. Results lead researchers to conclude that implementing program could effectively enhance the nursing education accuracy of pre-operation cardiovascular patients. The expectation could provide the program and looks after basis of the improvement near the bed, achieves

the satisfied sickness and family member's demand.