Exploration of New Nursing Models for Urological Surgery

Patients undergoing urological surgery often need to be provided with targeted nursing care to ensure that the therapeutic effects can be fully realized, however, the traditional nursing cannot reach the expect effect.both patient outcome and nurse satisfaction have been reported with high levels of dissatisfaction in the traditional nursing. Therefore, exploring a new, patient-centered and effective nursing mode is needed. In 2010, the Chinese Ministry of Health proposed a project named the High-Quality Care Project to improve nurse and patient outcomes through the transformation of the nursing care delivery system in hospitals. This study aims to compare the new nursing model and the traditional nursing, and to explore a more effective nursing model for urological surgery.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Urological Nursing
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: high-quality nursing; Procedure: Clinical Care Pathway; Procedure: Roy Adaptation Model

Detailed Description

Patients who underwent urological disease diagnosed and treated in our department were included in this study. The patients were randomly divided into two groups through the random number table method, with a 1:1 ratio. The control group received traditional urological care. The study group comprised 3 subgroups, and each subgroup received different nursing model. All the three new nursing models, including high-quality nursing (primary nursing), Clinical care pathway, and Roy adaptation model.were given to the subgroups respectively.

High-quality nursing refers to effective nursing measures in multiple aspects and dimensions, provided to patients according to their actual conditions by centering on the patients throughout their ongoing treatment, strengthening the primary nursing care, and fully implementing the nursing responsibility including managing complications and providing long-term support and information, to ensure patient satisfaction and to improve the patient's quality of life. Clinical care pathway includes multidisciplinary care plans that provides detailed guidelines for patients with specific clinical problems, and the Roy adaptation model (RAM), proposed by nursing scientist Sister Callista Roy in 1970, offers a comprehensive framework to guide nursing care for patients with chronic diseases.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 300
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• China
  • Hubei
    • Wuhan, Hubei, China, 430030
      • Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. patients with a definite diagnosis of urological disease confirmed by pathological examination or imaging;
2. patients with definite surgical indications;
3. patients with complete follow-up information.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. patients with hepatic or renal dysfunction or serious organic lesions in other organs;
2. patients with associated lymph node and distant metastases;
3. patients who withdrew during the study;
4. patients with incomplete case and follow-up data.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: control group; Traditional nursing services are provided to the control group, based on functional nursing. The nurses in the ward are assigned to complete different tasks according to their responsibilities, technical knowledge and skills. These tasks are including carrying out health education to the patients, introducing the admission guidelines and ward conditions, informing patients of basic knowledge on diseases, treatment, and nursing, monitoring patient vital signs and so on. The basic medical inspection and care are conducted appropriately. The patients are instructed on the compliance and precautions required during the perioperative period. The wound and drainage are checked regularly after the operation.
Experimental: study group High-quality nursing; High-quality nursing is provided to the study group based on primary nursing. Nurses in primary nursing take responsibility for the total care of a patient and are accountable for his/her care over 24 h a day from the patient's admission to discharge. In this case, nurses have more time to communicate with patients and to establish the nurse-patient relationship. In addition, high-quality nursing offers effective nursing measures to patients in terms of multiple aspects and dimensions through planning patient-centered nursing care, strengthening the perioperative nursing since admission, and fully implementing the nursing responsibility system.	Procedure: high-quality nursing; High-quality nursing; Other Names: primary nursing
Experimental: study group Clinical Care Pathway; The clinical care pathway will be implemented immediately after admission. With the patient as the center of the nursing intervention, a flowable form is chosen to ensure that patients could receive effective nursing interventions throughout the entire hospitalization from the day of admission to the final discharge. In addition to primary care, the present program also unifies the management of nursing resources with the establishment of a highly qualified and professionally competent nursing team. The team members would cooperate with each other and give full play to their respective initiatives, with the common goal of improving the quality of care. The severity of illness, psychological status, and family and social environment in each patient differ, so individualized care plans are developed for each case.	Procedure: Clinical Care Pathway; Clinical Care Pathway
Experimental: study group Roy Adaptation Model; the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) offers a comprehensive framework to guide nursing care for patients with chronic diseases. The RAM group receives standard care supplemented with interventions based on the RAM model. Negative emotions measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), pain intensity by the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and HRQoL by the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) are measured at the preoperative visit (T0), at 30 days (T1), and at 3 months of (T2) follow-up.	Procedure: Roy Adaptation Model; Roy Adaptation Model

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Patients' quality of life after surgery	the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)	3 months
Patient satisfaction	The patient satisfaction was evaluated by means of an adapted version of Press-Ganey PS scores, which included physician-specific questions and hospital performance questions	3 months
Postoperative complications	Postoperative complications include hemorrhage, infection, and anuria	3 months
The postoperative time to flatus	postoperative recovery 1	1 month
the time for first bowel movement	postoperative recovery 2	1 month
the length of hospital stay	postoperative recovery 3	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: YaNi Peng
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: E-Jun Peng, Dr., Tong Ji Hospital, Tong Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 19, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 7, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 8, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 8, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 7, 2023
• Last Verified: August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: High-quality nursing, Primary nursing, Roy Adaptation Model, Urological surgery
• Other Study ID Numbers: TJ-IRB20220940

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