Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package on the Safety Culture of Geriatric Patients

Alexandria University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Safety

Treatments: Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05910918

1522102022

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to determine the effect of intensive care nurses' training package on the safety culture of critically ill geriatric patients.

Study hypothesis:

Intensive care nurses who receive the proposed training package exhibit higher scores on critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture awareness than those who do not receive it.

Full description

The researchers will prepare the proposed nurses' training package program. The program will be planned to be carried out in 10 sessions that will be classified into; sessions regarding knowledge about the age-related changes affecting elderly patients that should be considered while caring for them and how to care for and maintain the safety of the critically ill geriatric patients. The researchers will prepare an illustrative PowerPoint presentation of each study program's session.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 20 years and above.
• provide direct care for critically ill geriatric patients.
• work for at least 1 month in the unit.

Exclusion criteria

• not involved in patient care.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package

Experimental group

Description:

For the study group, the researcher will explain the method of the training package program application to critical care nurses as follows; firstly, the researchers will assess the nurses' roster, then the researchers will classify the subjects into groups in order to conduct the training package for a group of them while the other subjects taking care of the patients in the intensive care units and repeat the same session to the others in the same manner.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package

comparison group

Active Comparator group

Description:

for the comparison group receive the general intensive care rules manual for routine care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package