Phan Thi Dzung
Viet Duc University Hospital, Vietnam
Title: Assessment of the results of the training programme on nursing competency standards-based wound care of Vietnam at Viet Duc University Hospital 2013-2015
Biography
Biography: Phan Thi Dzung
Abstract
Vietnam’s nursing competency standards (VNCS) were issued in 2012 and is the important basis on which the continuous nursing training programme are designed and developed. The study aim is to assess the knowledge, wound care competences of nurses at Viet Duc University Hospital before and one year after an educational intervention conducted. This is a comparative descriptive study carried out from 2013 to 2015 at Viet Duc University Hospital. The article is focused on quantitative results, in which scores of knowledge, Capacity in practice among nurses working at seven clinical departments before and one year after the educational intervention. The data collection tools include one 48-knowledge-item self-administered questionnaire, one sixteen-practice-item observation sheet on nurses’ confidence when conducting wound care. Then it was entered by Epidata version 3.1 and analysed with SPSS version 18.0. The lowest mean score of knowledge on wound are was that of sature removal (8.65 ± 3.19). The proportion of nurses with inadequate competency relating to wound care ranged from 24.8% to 76.7%. Interventional activities have statistically significantly improved nurses' knowledge and competency related to wound care (p<0.001). Before the intervention, the wound care competency of nurses was below average. Wound care program and materials are suitable, feasible and effective. After the intervention, the competency of nurses has noticeably improved. However, it shows that training contents need to be further developed and disseminated to nurses who provide direct wound care for patients in other hospitals to help in proving the quality of patient care as well.