Nurses Compliance Regarding Caring of Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgeries

Abstract

Background: Nurses'compliance regarding caring of children undergoing cardiac surgeries should clearly understand cardiac surgeries including cardiac structure, pathophysiology, major cardiac complications, post-operative nursing care, improve nurses competency during care of children and provided child family education to supported child care from admission till wellbeing. Aim of the Study was to assess the nurses' compliance regarding caring for children undergoing cardiac surgeries. Design: This study was adescriptive design.Setting; the study was conducted at the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) of Cardiac Surgery and Cardio-Thorax Surgery Word at Specialist Abou El-Reesh Children’s Hospital Children's Hospital in Cairo University. Subjects : Apurposive sample (50 nurses) selected from the previously mentioned settings.Tools of data collection : Included (I) structured questionnaire sheet to assess nurses' / characteristics and knowledge about cardiac surgeries (II) Observational checklists to assess nurses' compliance regarding care to children undergoing cardiac surgeries. Results: This study shows that more than three quarters of studied nurses was aging average 20-30 years old, more than half of them were males, more than two quarters of studied nurses were complied and comptent during caring of children undergoing cardiac surgeries and more than three quarteres of the studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge about caring of children undergoing cardiac surgeries. This study reveals that, there was a positive statistical correlation between total studied nurses’ knowledge and compliance regarding caring of children undergoing cardiac surgeries (r=.053 , P=.01) . Conclusion: The studied nurses had an appropriate compliance regarding care of children undergoing cardiac surgeries.Recommendations: Designing and implementing educational programs for nurses about caring for children undergoing cardiac surgeries and designing a standardized nursing comptancy to ensure nursing highly comptent during care of children undergoing cardiac surgeries.