Determination of the Critical Care Nurses Knowledge Toward Enteral Tube Feeding in AL-Hilla Teaching Hospitals (Interventional study)

Background: Patients with serious illness who admitted to the critical care unit almost have a complex nutritional needs commonly require intensive nutritional care as part of the metabolic reply to disease and injuries. The knowledge of nurses and their practices toward enteral nutrition act effectively on the clinical outcome of the patients.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of enteral tube feeding protocol sessions upon nurses knowledge.

Methodology: Quasi-experimental study conducted in the critical care units in AL-Hilla Teaching Hospitals, from the period (Sep.2018 to Aug. 2019). Non-probability (purposive) sample were assigned to achieve the objectives of the study, (60) nurses divided to control and trail group, special questionnaire prepared to collect the data which divided on to three parts. The validity of the questionnaire obtained by review of (11) experts in the different filed, correlation used as statistical method to calculate the reliability of the study questionnaire which recorded as (r=0.76), which is statically acceptable.

Result: The presented that most of the study sample were male, between (22-26) years old, 14(56.0) and 19(95.5) were married most of them were bachelor degree holders.

Conclusion: Implementation of un educational program to the nurses’ who caring to patients schulalted to tube feeding record significant improvement in the nurses’ level of knowledge.