Assessment of Nurses Knowledge toward Pre and Post Nursing Interventions Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy at AL-Imam AL-Hussein Teaching Hospital in AL-Nasiriya City

Abstract

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the gold standard treatment for gallstones. Because of the numerous advantages of open surgery, such as limited incisions, short hospital stay, no drainage tube and stomach tube use, fewer analgesic and fewer complications.

Aims of the study: This study aimed at assess nurses knowledge towards pre and post nursing interventions laparoscopic cholecystectomy; and determine the relationship between nurses knowledge and their socio-demographic data.

Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted for the periods of December 21th 2020 to June 1st 2021. The study is carried out at the AL-Imam AL-Hussein Teaching Hospital in AL- Nasiriya city. Non-probability purposive sample was selected of nurses who working at surgical wards. The sample consists of (50) nurses. The validity of questionnaire achieved through a panel of experts and reliability achieved through a pilot study. By used the questionnaire, data were collected and analyzed through the application of descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: Findings demonstrated that the nurses were moderately knowledge related to gallbladder and laparoscopic cholecystectomy, interventions before and after the laparoscopic cholecystectomy at mean equal 1.43, 1.47, and 1.39 respectively. There were no-significant relationship between nurses knowledge and their demographic data at p-value >0.05.

Conclusion: Nurses who working at surgical wards were express unsatisfactory knowledge pre and post nursing interventions laparoscopic Cholecystectomy due to low level of education and lack of training.

Recommendations: The study recommended that special training session, concerning all nurses' surgical wards for postoperative nursing interventions (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Patient) at inside or outside Iraq, and booklets should be designated and presented to all nurses' surgical wards, in addition to increasing the number of professional nurses' graduate of the colleges of nursing to the enrolled in surgical wards.