Effectiveness of nursing education program on nurses knowledge toward Arrhythmia in Kirkuk's teaching hospitals

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of nursing educational program on nurse's knowledge toward arrhythmia in Kirkuk's teaching hospitals.

Methodology: A quasi-experimental design was carried out at Azady and Kirkuk teaching hospitals in 17th January, 2011 to 10th of June, 2012. The program and instruments constructed and developed by the researcher to measure the purpose of the study. Purposive sample comprised of (80) nurses was divided into two groups, study group consisted (40) nurses exposed to the nursing educational program and control group consisted (40) nurses were not exposed to the program. The measurement of effectiveness of nursing educational program through the knowledge assessment includes (43) items. Reliability of instrument was determined through the use of test and retest and the instrument validity was determined through a panel of experts.

Results: The results of the study showed that the effectiveness of educational program regarding nurses' knowledge toward arrhythmia is a positive and clear. It is also shows that there is good improvement with highly significant differences in study group in overall main domains related to nurse's knowledge.

Recommendation: The study recommends that all nurses in the medical department in our country should be involved in the application of educational program which was developed in this study