ExternalVentricular Brain Drain: Effect of Nursing Guidelines on Internship Nursing Students' Performance

Abstract

External Ventricular Drain (EVD) care is considered an advanced specialized nursing skill for the neurological patient. Internshipnursing students are more exposed tothe(EVD) during clinical experience so they need to improve their performance related to (EVD) to ensure patients' safety and eliminate errors through safe performance. Aim: this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of external ventricular brain drainguidelines on internship nursing students' performance. Study design: a quasi-experimentalstudy; Subject & setting:A convenient subject of fortyinternship nursing students at neurological intensive care units affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Tools: (1) ExternalVentricular Brain Drain self-administeredquestionnaire, (2) Nurses' practice and attitude observational checklist pre & post guideline implementation. Results: there were significant improvement in the level of performance of internship nursing students post guideline implementation (P 0.05). Conclusion: nursing guidelines had statistically significant positive effect on internship nursing students' performance regarding external ventricular brain drainevidenced by most of the studied sample had satisfactory knowledge, practice and attitude. Recommendation: The periodic refreshing in-service training courses should be provided to internship nursing students in order to keep them of updating knowledge and practice regarding external ventricular brain drain.