Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package on the Safety Culture of Geriatric Patients

Safety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package on the Safety Culture of Critically Ill Geriatric Patients:Findings and Implications for Clinical Practice

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05910918
• Other study ID #: 1522102022
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 30, 2022
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: Alexandria University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to determine the effect of intensive care nurses' training package on the safety culture of critically ill geriatric patients.

Study hypothesis:

Intensive care nurses who receive the proposed training package exhibit higher scores on critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture awareness than those who do not receive it.

Description:

The researchers will prepare the proposed nurses' training package program. The program will be planned to be carried out in 10 sessions that will be classified into; sessions regarding knowledge about the age-related changes affecting elderly patients that should be considered while caring for them and how to care for and maintain the safety of the critically ill geriatric patients. The researchers will prepare an illustrative PowerPoint presentation of each study program's session.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 15, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 20 years and above.

• provide direct care for critically ill geriatric patients.

• work for at least 1 month in the unit.

Exclusion Criteria:

• not involved in patient care.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Safety

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Intensive Care Nurses' Training Package
For the study group, the researcher will explain the method of the training package program application to critical care nurses as follows; firstly, the researchers will assess the nurses' roster, then the researchers will classify the subjects into groups in order to conduct the training package for a group of them while the other subjects taking care of the patients in the intensive care units and repeat the same session to the others in the same manner.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Nursing	Alexandria
Egypt	Rasha Eweida	Alexandria

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Alexandria University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (4)

Bagshaw SM, Webb SA, Delaney A, George C, Pilcher D, Hart GK, Bellomo R. Very old patients admitted to intensive care in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre cohort analysis. Crit Care. 2009;13(2):R45. doi: 10.1186/cc7768. Epub 2009 Apr 1. — View Citation

Boumendil A, Somme D, Garrouste-Orgeas M, Guidet B. Should elderly patients be admitted to the intensive care unit? Intensive Care Med. 2007 Jul;33(7):1252. doi: 10.1007/s00134-007-0621-3. Epub 2007 Apr 3. — View Citation

Laake JH, Dybwik K, Flaatten HK, Fonneland IL, Kvale R, Strand K. Impact of the post-World War II generation on intensive care needs in Norway. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2010 Apr;54(4):479-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02170.x. Epub 2009 Nov 23. — View Citation

Nguyen YL, Angus DC, Boumendil A, Guidet B. The challenge of admitting the very elderly to intensive care. Ann Intensive Care. 2011 Aug 1;1(1):29. doi: 10.1186/2110-5820-1-29. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Intensive Care Nurses' Awareness of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patients' Safety Culture Questionnaire	This tool will assess the intensive care nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture. It will include items that will be categorized into four subscales namely, intensive care nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practices of caring for critically ill geriatric patients and the critical care unit work environment. The nurses have to respond to the items using a 3-point Likert scale. The total score of the items will be summed and higher scores will indicate greater nurses' awareness of critically ill geriatric patients' safety culture.	2 weeks