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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Safety
• Interventions: Behavioral: Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package

• Registration Number: NCT05910918
• Lead Sponsor: Alexandria University

Brief Summary

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.

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 Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-11-30
• Primary Completion: 2023-01-15
• Study Completion: 2023-02-10
• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-19
• Status Verified: 2023-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-06-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-17
• Study First Posted: 2023-06-20
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

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 & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
comparison group	Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package	for the comparison group receive the general intensive care rules manual for routine care.
Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intensive Care Nurses' Awareness of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patients' Safety Culture Questionnaire	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Faculty of Nursing; 🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt

Rasha Eweida; 🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt