Nurses Education Using Virtual Social Network

Mansoura University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education, Distance; Continuing Nursing Education; Blood Pressure Determination

Treatments: Other: blood pressure measurement whatsapp educational program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04789642

mansoura U

Details and patient eligibility

About

Regardless of the method used to measure BP, initial and ongoing training of technicians and healthcare providers and the use of validated and calibrated devices are critical for obtaining accurate BP measurements.

Full description

Shortage of human resources and the importance of remaining up-to-date to provide healthcare services highlighted the development of distance education for nurses. In addition information presented via the distance learning method via software systems was more stable than the face-to-face method via lecture, and it saved time and energy. Nurses are responsible for BP monitoring and assessment in the clinical setting. Finding new strategies for distance education is of great concern and ,compared with traditional face-to-face interventions, those carried out through social networks have the advantage that the participant does not need to attend the sessions in person, and offers unlimited access to the intervention materials whenever they wish.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Only permanent staff nurses working in the two cardiac units.
• Nurses of both sexes .
• Nurses who use a smart phone or any other digital device with the ability to install the social network of whatsapp.

Exclusion criteria

• Inaccessibility to wireless net work
• Unwillingness to participate in study
• Failure to fill pretest questionnaire

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Description:

A social group will be created on whatsapp for subjects of the intervention group and they will receive education about blood pressure measurement guidelines in 24 sessions, once per day in the form of text, image and video clips. In addition to British and Irish Hypertension Society (BIHS) blood pressure measurement auscultatory tutorials.

Treatment:

Other: blood pressure measurement whatsapp educational program

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not receive any intervention only their routine education that is provided by the continuous staff development team of the hospital.