NCT05446844

A Nurse Caring Behavior Protocol on Postoperative Cardiac Patient Satisfaction

Impact of Implementing a Nurse Caring Behavior Protocol on Postoperative Cardiac Patient Satisfaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alexandria University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

the study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing a nurse caring behavior (NCB) protocol on postoperative cardiac patient satisfaction.

Detailed description

Critical care nurses need to comply with caring behaviors when caring for postoperative cardiac patients. Furthermore, patient satisfaction is a key indicator of nursing care quality. As such, this study focused on these critical issues considering the limited research available on the impact of caring behaviors on postoperative cardiac patient satisfaction. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing a nurse caring behavior protocol on postoperative cardiac patient satisfaction. The study was conducted at a cardiac surgery intensive care unit of Alexandria Main University Hospital, Egypt. Sixty adults, conscious cardiac surgery patients, were included during the first 2 days following surgery. Patients were randomly assigned to either a control group, which received routine nursing care, or a protocol group, which received nursing care based on nurse care behaviors protocol through a simple randomization method. One tool was used "Postoperative Cardiac Patient Satisfaction with Nurse Caring Behaviors Evaluation Questionnaire". At the end of the second day, patients were asked regarding their satisfaction with the nursing care received based on caring behaviors. These nursing care included intensive care unit admission and orientation processes, physical care, psychological care, and social interaction between patient and nurse, providing health teaching, and maintaining a safe healing environment.

Conditions

• Nurse-Patient Relations
• Patient Satisfaction
• Caring

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	A nurse caring behavior protocol	Nursing interventions based on caring behaviors protocol was provided as follows: * Caring behaviors during ICU admission and orientation processes included orienting patients to time, place, and person. * Caring behaviors during physical care informing patients regarding the purpose and expected duration of mechanical ventilator use. * Caring behaviors during psychological care included offering religious sound meditation. * Caring behaviors during social interaction included maintaining eye contact during nurse-patient interaction. * Caring behaviors during health teaching included providing health teaching for patients. * Caring behaviors during maintaining a safe healing environment included providing patients with an explanation regarding nursing activities.
OTHER	Routine nursing care	Routine nursing care was concentrated mainly on hard skills of physically demanding care such as monitoring vital signs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-01
• Completion: 2020-05-01
• First posted: 2022-07-07
• Last updated: 2022-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt