Wafaa Hassan Abdullah Ali
Menoufia University, Egypt
Title: Safety Measures for Postoperative Surgical Patients: Patients Outcomes
Biography
Biography: Wafaa Hassan Abdullah Ali
Abstract
Background: Keeping patients safe while in the postoperative period is a topic of great concern for patients and nurses. Aim: To determine safety measures for postoperative surgical patients and its relation to patients’ outcomes. Design: descriptive, correlational research designs was utilized. Setting: Surgical “Male & Female ‘departments’ at king abdulaziz university teaching affiliated hospital in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Subjects: Non-probability convenience sample was chosen and it consisted of all available nurses working from the above setting and their surgical postoperative patients. Total numbers included in the study were 31 nurses and 31 post-operative patients. Tools: 1. Sociodemographic questionnaire: to assess nurses Socio-demographic characteristics. 2. Safety Measures Observation Checklists: to investigate safety measures applied by nurses for surgical patients postoperatively. 3. Surgical Patient Clinical outcomes observational Checklist: was adopted from hospital chart to determine surgical patient clinical outcomes within the first 24 hours postoperatively. Results: The highest percentage of studied nurses were providing care for their patients equally without pay attention to religion, color or gender. Also it revealed that nurses were not explains to patients; the importance of knowing the signs of wound inflammation. Conclusions: There is a positive correlation but not significant between safety measures score and surgical patient clinical outcome score. Also the educational level among the studied nurses had a positive effect between safety measures dimension and patient outcomes postoperatively. Recommendations: There is a need to change in the educational system through creating patient safety courses in nursing faculties’ curriculums.
Keywords: Safety Measures- Surgical Patients- Patient Outcomes.