Nursing Educative Support for Hospitalized Adult Patients with Intravenous Theraphy
Keywords:
Hospital Education Department, Self Care, Intravenous InfusionsAbstract
Background: The hospitalized patients undergoing treatment with intravenous therapy obtain additional benefits when they receive educational support by the nurses. They encourage knowmore them to about it and to be aware of their own health.
Objective: To identify the inprovement of the self-care skills in patients with intravenous therapy when they receive educational support by the nurses.
Methodology: Quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design. Eighty hospitalized adult patients comprised the sample. They were chosen at random from diferent areas: internal medicine and surgery in a second level hospital. The realiability obteined in the pilot test was Kuder-Richardson of 0.74.
Results: There was significant statistical difference between pre and post test in the nursing intervention with t Student test.
Conclusions: The nurses educational support given to hospitalized patients, improved their self-care abilities which led to a better understanding of the intravenous therapy.
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