Educational Nursing Intervention: Its Effect on the Nurses’ Performance, Patients’ Daily Living Activities, Needs and Selected Visual Problems of Cataract Surgery

Abstract

Cataract is the second cause of visual impairment and the first cause of blindness globally so \ninadequate nursing intervention lead to serious complications for the patient with cataract surgery. \nPurpose of the study: to evaluate the effect of educational nursing intervention on the nurses’ \nperformance, patients’ daily living activities, needs and selected visual problems of cataract surgery. \nSetting: The current study was carried out at ophthalmology department and out patients’ \nophthalamology clinic in Menoufia university hospital and El Ramad hospital in Shebin El-Kom \ndistrict, Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of adult 25 nurses and 100 \npatients was divided into two equal groups (study and control). Tools of the study: Three tools for \ndata collection; two tools for nurses (a self-administered questionnaire (tool I) and an observation \nchecklist for nurses’ performance (tool II) and one tool for patients (an interview questionnaire, tool \nIII). Results: There was a highly statistically significant improvement in total mean score of nurses’ \nknowledge from 27.56±3.11 pre intervention to 41.08±4.09 post intervention and after one week to \n38.0±3.69 as a follow up. Also, there was a highly statistically significant improvement in the total \nnurse s performance mean score from 102.84±21.54 pre intervention to 245.44±22.84 post \nintervention and after one week to 239.84±23.05 as a follow up p < 0.001. Also, there were highly \nstatistically significant improvements in meeting all patients’ daily living activities and needs with \nminimized visual complications after intervention (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Total good level of \nknowledge, satisfactory performance of the studied nurses significantly improved after \nimplementing educational nursing intervention with better achievement of patients’ daily living \nactivities and needs with major limitation in visual problems.