Effect of three different methods in rewarming hypothermic postoperative patients

Hypothermia refers to core body temperature less than 36°C. It was reported that 60 to 80% of all postoperative patients suffered from hypothermia. Hypothermia has a profound effect on every body system and may result in life threatening problems if not recognized and treated promptly. The nurse has an important role in rewarming surgical patients immediately postoperatively. Many researchers found that there are different methods to warm surgical patients immediately postoperatively as radiation using infrared lamps, forced air warmer, and warmed blanket. Comparing between three different nursing methods in rewarming patients after major abdominal surgery. The study was carried out in surgical wards and recovery rooms at Alexandria Main University Hospital. A convenient sample of 60 adult patients was selected and assigned randomly to one of three experimental warming methods. Group I was assigned to extrablanket, group II was assigned to radiation, and group III was assigned to forced air warmer. In postoperative period, all patients in the three different groups were assessed every 5 minutes for core body temperature using tympanic thermometer until return to baseline temperature. The study revealed that the patients warmed with forced air warmer returned to baseline temperature in a shorter period than those who were warmed by the use of radiation or extrablanket. Statistically significant difference was found between the three groups. Rewarming is a priority in the immediate care of postoperative surgical patients because hypothermia may augment the risk of adverse outcome. Therefore, the importance of the use of forced air warmer, radiation using infrared heat lamps, or extrablanket should be emphasized in the postoperative period

Collaboration between nursing service and nursing education and its effect on students' clinical achievement

This study was done at Manshiate El-Bakry Hospital during the summer training of diploma school students to find out the effect of collaboration between nursing education and nursing service on the students achievement. A total of 87 students were included in the study. The plan for the training was done by nursing service personnel and nursing educators. In this plan, nursing staff and teaching staff participated together in teaching and supervising students during the clinical training. The findings of the study indicated improvement in the students' achievement that resulted from the creation of an environment conductive to nursing education. The result might indicate that collaboration between nursing service and nursing education created an ideal environment for students' training

Nurses' knowledge and attitude towards AIDS patients

This study aimed at assessing nurses' knowledge and attitude toward AIDS patients. One hundred and fifty nurses from different ductional levels were randomly selected from both Cairo and Ain-Shams University Hospitals to be the respondents of this study. Data were collected by using a questionnaire which was distributed to respondents in their clinical areas. Findings indicated mixed feelings of worry, fear, disgust and sympathy toward AIDS patients, regardless of the respondents level of education. However, their majority expressed their willingness to care for AIDS patients but with caution. Most of the respondents are not familiar with all the modes of transmission of the disease, in addition they have wrong information that need to be corrected

Variables that induce hospital nurses to leave their jobs

The present study was conducted to identify variables that induce nurses to leave their job. The sample was limited to nurses working in two public general hospitals in two areas Kasr Elany Hospital in Cairo and Tanta General Hospital in Tanta. A questionnaire was designed to collect data on demographic variables, degree of satisfaction, a part for ranking 15 variables according to their priority in inducing nurses to leave job, and a question to know if the nurse wanted to leave job or not was included. Findings of the study revealed that nurses desire to leave job was induced by their dissatisfaction and unmet needs. As well as the contradiction of family responsibilities with some aspects of the job. The logical conclusion that nursing department requires an administrative philosophy and manpower management that pay attention to personal and professional development as well as job enlargement

Job satisfaction among nurse's educators at the university level [comparative study]

This study was done to compare nurse educators at both Alexandria and Cairo Higher Institute of Nursing, as regards their perception of the importance of given job characteristics to job satisfaction, the extent of their satisfaction and the predictors of their job satisfaction. A two parts questionnaire was used to collect the data. The first part collects demographic data, while the second part respondent rated the importance of job- characteristics to job satisfaction and indicated her satisfaction with each. Analysis of the data revealed, that the nurse educators at both institutes showed low degree of satisfaction. Educators ranked extrinsic factors in the importance index as more important than intrinsic factors. There was negative correlation between importance and satisfaction with some items. For Alexandria educators the intrinsic factors are the best predictor for job satisfaction, while age, years of experience, work group and self-actualization were best predictors for Cairo educators job satisfaction

Certain epidemiologic factors contributing to the formation of urinary calculous disease [preliminary report]

Urolithiasis, one of the common disease of the urinary tract, involves a number of epidemiological aspects. Specific nursing intervention relative to the care of the patient with calculous disease of the urinary tract depends upon the initial and updated nursing assessment. The nurse should be familiar with factors that contribute to stone formation such as environmental, dietary, hereditary factor and ambulation patterns. This study aimed at identifying epidemiological factors leading to the formation of urinary Calculous disease. The results revealed, that most patients are living in crowded poorly ventilated rooms which were hot and highly humid. They prespire perspire a lot especially during summer, they did not drink enough fluids as they should. Their diet was mainly vegetables, proteins and Carbohydrates. They did not know what items of food that are prohibited