Implementation study of Evidence-based Nursing Practice Guideline for Enteral Nutrition of Infants with Congenital Heart Disease application / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To evaluate the effectiveness of Evidence-based Nursing Practice Guideline for Enteral Nutrition of Infants with Congenital Heart Disease application on improving the nutritional status of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) in the target population, and to explore the effective strategies of evidence implementation in the process of dissemination, implementation and integration into clinical practice. Methods:This was an implementation study. Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services Integrated Framework (i-PARIHS) was used as a theoretical model. Infants with CHD who received cardiac surgery from the heart ICU of Children ′s Hospital of Fudan University from January 2019 to February 2020 were selected as the study subjects. January to June 2019 and September to February 2020 were the pre and post implementation phase respectively. For medical staff, communication strategy, implementation process strategy, integration strategy and capacity-building strategy were used to advance the implementation process. According to the implementation strategy of children, the 26 best practice recommendations in the guide were translated into operable nursing processes and enteral nutrition programs, which were implemented in four stages: admission to the hospital, pre operation, post operation cardiac care room, post operation ward recovery, and pre discharge. Implementation Results Variable Assessment Form was used to evaluate effectiveness of the implementation strategies; hospitalization weight and upper arm circumference, serum albumin and pre-albumin before discharge were used to evaluate effectiveness of the interventions. Results:Scores of eight aspects of Implementation Results Variable Assessment reached more than 75% of the total score. Pre-albumin of post-implementation was (166.53 ± 42.57) g/L, which was statistically significantly higher than (148.41 ± 30.66) g/L before discharge ( t=-3.21, P<0.01); the weight loss of pre-implementation was 0.00 (0.41) kg, while the weight change of post-implementation was -0.10 (0.40) kg, the difference was statistically significant ( Z=-2.90, P<0.01). Conclusions:The strategies of diffusing, implementing, integrating the CHD enteral nutrition protocol based on guide could improve the implementation results and the nutrition status of infants with CHD.