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

June 17, 2023 updated by: Rasha salah elsayed eweida, Alexandria University

Effect of Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package on the Safety Culture of Critically Ill Geriatric Patients:Findings and Implications for Clinical Practice

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed 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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Egypt
      • Alexandria, Egypt
        • Faculty of Nursing
      • Alexandria, Egypt, 21523
        • Rasha Eweida

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

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.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package
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.
Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package
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.
Active Comparator: comparison group
for the comparison group receive the general intensive care rules manual for routine care.
Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package
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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Intensive Care Nurses' Awareness of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patients' Safety Culture Questionnaire
Time Frame: 2 weeks
This tool will assess the intensive care nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture. It will include items that will be categorized into four subscales namely, intensive care nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practices of caring for critically ill geriatric patients and the critical care unit work environment. The nurses have to respond to the items using a 3-point Likert scale. The total score of the items will be summed and higher scores will indicate greater nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture.
2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Alexandria University

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Eman Taha, Egypt Faculty of Nursing Alexandria, Egypt

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 30, 2022

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 15, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

February 10, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 19, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 17, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

June 20, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 20, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 17, 2023

Last Verified

June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1522102022

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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