Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Patients’ Safety After Cardiac Catheterization رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Introduction: Although the cardiac catheterization is safe to patients and can save them from life-threatening conditions, but still has possible risk for complications, these complications divided in two main parts, minor complications and major complications and may cause death. This study aimed to investigate nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of patient safety after cardiac catheterization in Palestinian West Bank governmental and non-governmental hospital. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional method, descriptive study conducted in 2021, data collected by visiting the hospitals and distribute the questionnaire. Sample size were 220 nurses, and 212 respondents were completed the questionnaire. SPSS version 24 was used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and t-test were used in the analysis of resulted data. Results: The study showed that the overall level of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice concerning health care for patients post cardiac catheterization is good with the mean score of 3.75 and SD=0.39, most of nurses have intermediate knowledge and attitudes about patients’ safety post cardiac catheterization with mean 3.52± SD 0.48 & 3.65± SD 0.47 consequently, while they have high level of practice 4.23±0.59. In addition, the perception of nurses for the application of institutional measures by their hospitals was intermediate (M: 3.66± SD: 0.74). V The total KAP score is statistically significant with sociodemographic variables: age, marital status, and department that nurses working in, and there’s trend in qualification level, in addition there’s relationship between institutional measures variable with KAP variables. Conclusion: Nurses have an adequate knowledge toward patients’ safety post cardiac catheterization which can be increased by increasing the level of nurses’ qualifications with positive attitude and high practice level toward patients’ safety post cardiac catheterization, practice affected from nurses’ knowledge, and KAP has positive relationship with the institutional measures to enhance patients’ care. Recommendation: Enhance the continuous education committee and empower their roles to follow up nurses’ education status, also Establish a monitoring system on patients’ status post cardiac catheterization to improve the patient safety outcome, and finally establish a protocol that all nurses who will be accepted to work in cardiac care departments must have at least one course about cardiac catheterization.