Nurses’ Competencies in the Delivery of Discharge Education to Patients with Congestive Heart Failure in the Critical Care Settings

Alhanouf Awaad Alharthi^1,

¹Critical Care Nursing Department, Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Saudi Arabia

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Alhanouf Awaad Alharthi. Nurses’ Competencies in the Delivery of Discharge Education to Patients with Congestive Heart Failure in the Critical Care Settings. American Journal of Nursing Research. 2022; 10(3):84-89. doi: 10.12691/ajnr-10-3-2

Abstract

Purpose: The study aimed to assess the level of nurses’ competency on the delivery of discharge education to patients with congestive heart failure in the critical care settings. Background: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is regarded as one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Focusing on the well-defined discharge education and the patient’s willingness to adopt patient education (PE) is an essential aspect to promote improvement on the condition of life and disease outcomes, as well as lessening the rates of re-hospitalization. Method: A quantitative descriptive research design was utilized in this study and a convenient nonprobability sampling technique was used in selecting the total number of 115 critical care nurses as a sample of the current study. Result: The result of the study shows the overall nurses’ competency in delivering discharge education to patient with congestive heart failure in its 5 domains such as general information, medication, nutrition, activity, and monitoring and follow-up was 4.22 with a SD of 0.57 which denotes “high competent”. Furthermore, it also revealed that there is no significant difference between nurses’ gender, education qualification, and unit of assignment and their level of competency in delivering discharge education as supported by the p-value exceeded the significance level of 0.05. However, their level of experience and their level of competency in delivering discharge education are significant as supported by the p-value of .040. Conclusion: Nurses play a pivotal role in discharge education; therefore, their competency is essential and vital in ensuring patient’s health. However, the success of discharge education does not depend entirely on the nurse's role, but it also requires the participation of the patient and their caregivers especially during the transition process from the hospital setting to the patient’s home. Similar study to be conducted to assess the level of critical care nurses in providing discharge education for patients with CHF at Saudi Arabia.

Keywords:
discharge education competency critical care patient education patient outcomes patient safety

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