Basic emergency care module: a tool for improvement of nurses' performance

The study was carried out on 20 female Egyptian nurses and 150 patients and /or their families. An Arabic module for basic emergency care was prepared, based on the result of the base line assessment of the nurses' needs. Its impact on nurses performance was evaluated twice, immediately after the program implementation and after 3 months. The results showed statistical significant difference with positive correlation as regards nurses' performance in relation to years of experience and attendance of the course. Nurses suggestions reflect positive attitudes towards their work, such as asking for more training hours, translation of new trends material in emergency care and duration of time between admission and provision of care. Nurses' general appearance was also improved. It could be assumed that the more the nurse gains knowledge and skills, the more the study acquires competence, empowerment and performs voluntarily

impact of simultaneous nursing staff training and unit reorganization on nursing empowerment

This study intended to empower the nursing staff through training and reorganization of neurosurgical unit. The subjects were all the unit staff [20 physicians, 18 nurses, 4 auxiliary personnel and 34 patients]. The study was done in 3 phases: An assessment phase, to inspect the physical set up, equipment used, facilities, unit's staff opinions, suggestions, patient's condition, nurses knowledge, performance and level of anxiety using Taylor anxiety scale and Phaneuf scale to measure the quality of care that patient receives; the experimental phase, that was based on the input from the assessment phase, a program for reconstruction of the unit and upgrading knowledge and performance of the staff was developed and implemented for 10-month period; the evaluation phase in which correlation was done between results of the assessment phase and post program implementation. There was improvement regarding staff knowledge and performance as well as patients condition with an interesting finding which showed marked increase of the nurses' anxiety level post the implementation of the program which can be attributed to increase level of responsibility. This paper showed that through empowerment of the nurses productivity increased, functions improved and the patients received higher quality care

Factors affecting patients with arterial hypertension

This study was conducted to gather information about hypertensive patients to assess their characteristics knowledge, life-style and to clear the risk groups, whom are liable to be hypertensive patients. The study was done in Ain Shams University Hospital and El.Salam Mohandseen hospital, in medical section, both in out patients clinics and inpatient sections 200 patients previously diagnosed as hypertensive were included in this study [regardless of aetiology from both sex and more than 20 years old age and 50 persons have all the previous characteristics except they are not hypertensive as a control group. The data was collected by a-pre designed interviewing questionnaire schedule and a physical assessment sheet. The results showed that hypertensives patients are in need to change their life style to control hypertension this include achieving ideal body weight restricting sodium intake, daily exercise, learning techniques to relax and reduce stress in daily life. Prevention of drinking caffeine content which elevate blood pressures prevention of smoking and also the hypertensive patients need continuous follow-up care