“Efficacy of patients’ safety guidelines during patient’s transportation among ward attendants in terms of knowledge and practice”
Main Article Content
Abstract
Patient’s safety means avoiding mistakes, complications, and prevention of harmful effects.1 it is mandatory for hospital to ensure patient’s safety during the hospitalization of patient. Patients who are admitted in intensive care unit are at risk of any hazardous event especially during transportation of patient.2
Methodology: Quasi experimental study with two group pre- test post-test design was adopted to assess the effectiveness of patients’ safety guidelines in terms of knowledge and practice among ward attendants. Total eighty-seven ward attendants were selected by simple random sampling technique from a tertiary care hospital of Dehradun further divide into experimental and control group. Data was collected by self-structured knowledge questionnaire and observation practice checklist.
Result: The overall mean post-test knowledge score of experimental groups (24.02±2.873) was higher than the post-test mean score of the control group (19.95±3.408). Mean difference was 4.07 which was significant (t=3.49) at p<0.05. The post-test level of practice in experimental group (28.80±1.812) was higher than the post-test mean score of the control group (21.01±1.806), mean difference was 7.79 which was significant (t=3.49) at p<0.05. Conclusion: This study concluded that after intervention significant improvement in knowledge and practice of ward attendants in experimental group has been noted.
Article Details
References
Walton M, Barraclough B. Patient safety curriculum guide multi professional edition. Malta: World Health Organization. 2011.
Beckmann U, Gillies DM, Berenholtz SM, Wu AW, Pronovost P. Incidents relating to the intra hospital transfer of critically ill patients: an analysis of the reports submitted to the Australian incidents monitoring study in intensive care ‘Intensive care medicine, 2004; 30 (8):1579-1585.
Jarden RJ, Quirke S. Improving safety and documentation in intra hospital transport: Development of an intra hospital transport tool for critically ill patients. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 2010; 26 (2):101-107.
Lee L. A guide for HCAs on safe patient transfers. Nursing Times; 2013; 109 (26): 20-22.
Quazi N. Apte S. Effectiveness of video-assisted teaching on knowledge and practice regarding patient’s safety during transportation. International Journal of Applied Research. 2018; 4(9): 103-109.
Brunsveld - Reinders AH, Arbous MS, Kuiper SG, Jonge E D. A comprehensive method to develop a checklist to increase safety of intra hospital transportation of critically ill patients. Critical care. 2015; 19 (214): 1-10.https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-015-0938-1.