Nurse education regarding agitated patients and its effects on clinical practice
Leyla Özdemir
Hacettepe University School of Nursing Ankara, Turkey
Erdem Karabulut
Hacettepe University Department of Biostatistics, Medical Faculty Ankara, Turkey
PP: 119 - 128
Abstract
This study identified the impact of an education program on nurses' practices for agitated patients and documented the changes in practice after completion of the training. Eighteen cardiac intensive care nurses were included to the study.
Prior to nurses' participation in an education program, a pre-test indicating nurses' current practices for 40 agitated patients was evaluated with the 'Nurse Practice Form'. After the pre-test data collection period was completed, the 2-day training program on caring for agitated patients was conducted. The last step of the study was evaluation of post-test nurses' practices for 40 agitated patients using the 'Nurse Practice Form'.
The findings indicated that instead of pre-test nurses' use of physical restraints for controlling agitated patients without a physician order, none of post-test nurses applied them. The training program provided nurses the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and to manage the causes of agitation.
Keywords
agitation, clinical practice, education, intensive care unit, nursing, restraints
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