Impact of training programme for nurses caring for the heart surgery patients in Al-Noor specialist Hospital-Makkah Al-Makkah Al Maukarramah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

The Cardiac Surgery Centre, that recently started in Al Noor Specialist Hospital [A.N.S.H.] is considered the first centre in the Holy Makkah and it is the second for the whole Ministry of Health hospitals in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The nursing management of those patients present quite a challenge either preoperatively, intraoperatively or in surgical intensive care unit [SICU] ANSH. As it is a new speciality, the management post operatively of such patients is considered an important matter, with nursing care playing a major role. So training programme was conducted for 50 nurses in Cardiac Surgery and SICU at K.F.H. Jeddah and followed by another programme in Al Noor Specialist Hospital. Recent study on those nursing staff in Cardiac Surgery Ward, O.R. and in SICU confirmed the improvement of their performance, skills and knowledge for those nurses who had no previous experience in that delicate speciality