Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Nurse's knowledge concerning Complications of Cardiac Catheterization among Children at Al-Nassirhya Heart Center

OBJECTIVE: To assess nurses' knowledge concerning complications of cardiac catheterization among children and to find out the relationships between the nurses' knowledge concerning complications of cardiac catheterization among children and socio-demographic information. METHODOLOGY: a descriptive study was carried out at Al-Nassirhya Heart Center During the period in November 8th -2015 to the Wednesday June -2016. A non-probability (purposive) sample of (25) nurses, who worked at congenital heart anomalies department which include pediatric wards and cardiac catheterization unit. specialized in pediatric cardiac diseases in AL Nasiriyah Heart Center. The tool of the study included a questionnaire, which has six main parts. The Reliability of questionnaire was determined through internal consistency and through a pilot study, and the content validity of the questionnaire was determined through an expert panel. The data were analyzed through the application of descriptive frequencies, percentages, mean of score and the inferential statistical analysis: F test. RESULTS: The study revealed that there is no statistical significant association between nurses' age and their knowledge concerning the complications of cardiac catheterization at (pre test, post-1 and post-2) of educational program follow up (p value > 0.05). There is no statistical significant association between nurses' gender, nurses' level of education, monthly income, residential area, years of service in nursing field, nurses' years of experience in heart centers and training course about cardiac catheterization and their knowledge concerning the complications of cardiac catheterization. The present study concluded that high percentage of staff nurses were graduated of Nursing Institute and most of them did not participate in training courses about cardiac catheterization. CONCLUSIONS : (1) Most study sample was males. (2) Mostly the ages of study sample were (25-29) Year. (3) A High percentage of the sample did not participate in training courses concerning to cardiac catheterization. (4)Highly significant differences between the two periods (pre and post-1 tests) of study sample in all domains of (nurses' information about cardiac catheterization and its complication in pediatric KUFA JOURNAL FOR NURSING SCIENCES RECOMMENDATION: (1) The study recommended the necessity to develop the nurses' skills. (2) Giving chance to nurses to participate in training courses to improve nursing care provided to the child and his family during cardiac catheterization procedure.