The Effect of an Educational Program on Nurses’ Knowledge Concerning Nursing Care of Critically – ill Patients at king Fahad hospital Jeddah June 2022

Background: Critical care nurses must gain update knowledge, skills, experiences, high technical equipment to provide high quality nursing care to support critically ill patients’ recovery. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational program on nurse’s knowledge concerning Nursing Care for critically –ill Patients at Critical Care units. Methodology: This interventional pre–posttest study included 30nurses selected though a full-coverage sampling method and meeting the selection criteria. Data were collected using structured self-administered questionnaire after testing their validity and reliability through pilot study, then a written approval from the participants was taken. The pretest included an initial assessment followed by implementation of education program was designed based on actual needs of nurses in order to improve their knowledge toward effective nursing care of critically ill patient. Then the final assessment was conducted after one month (posttest). The collected data were then analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics based on the objective and p-value at 0.05 was considered as the level of significance using SPSS version 20. Results: this current study showed that there was statistically significant relationship between nurses knowledge in mechanical ventilator and years of experience in critical care with p value 0,04 in pre-program implementation and after 2 month post program p value was 0.02. That reflect the years of experience when the nurse handle the mechanical ventilator will became more expert than the nurse less experience of it that is why the less expert nurse does not aware of mode of mechanical ventilator. Conclusion: The study concluded that the total knowledge of nurses post-test was very good and follow-up after 2 month was good, that indicate the educational program effect in knowledge of nurses.