CLINICAL PATHWAY OF SELECTED RESPIRATORY DISEASES AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN HOSPITALS OF PCMC, PUNE

Mrs. Banashankari P Hiremath

Abstract


Clinical pathways are care plans developed collaboratively by physicians, nurses, physical therapists, technicians, pharmacists, speech therapists, case managers, and other staff members involved in patient care. Nurses are instrumental in ensuring the successful use of clinical pathways and can best contribute by gaining a thorough understanding of why and how pathways are used. Hence, a study was conducted to assess the effect of teaching on knowledge regarding the clinical pathway of selected respiratory diseases among staff nurses working in selected hospitals of PCMC, Pune.

                  A pre experimental one group pre test-post test was adopted for the study. A non probability convenient sampling technique was used to draw 60 samples. The data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire with 20 items. Major Findings of the Study depict that mean difference between the post-test (18.2) & pre-test (9) was significant (t(59)=44.2;p<0.05). The study concluded that teaching was effective in increasing the knowledge of staff nurses on clinical pathway of selected respiratory diseases.


Keywords


Clinical pathway, teaching, respiratory diseases, staff nurses.

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brunner and Suddarth (2004), Text book of medical surgical nursing, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins publication, 10th edition, pp 492-595.

Gail P.Poirrier & Melinda G.Oberleitner, 1999‘Clinical pathway in nursing’ springhouse publication, st,edition,pp:1-5.

Harry et al (1998), “Integrated care pathways” British medical journal, Vol, 316, D.o.p,10 Jan,1998.Pp:133-137.

Lewis’s (2011) ‘Medical-surgical nursing’ Elsevier publication, 7th edition, pp608-632.

Nicasio am,2010 et al (2010), ‘pharmacodynamic-based clinical pathway for empiric antibiotic choice in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia’, journal 2010 mar;25(1):69-77. Epub 2009 may 7.

Nishimura et al, (2011), ‘A prospective study clinical pathway for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: method development and five years of experience’, international journal of copd, 2011; 6: 365–372, Published online 2011 June 29. Doi:10.2147/COPD.s20423

Sciartelli C (1995), ‘a study using a clinical pathway approach to document patient teaching for breast cancer surgical procedures’, oncology nursing forum, 1995 jan-feb;22(1):131-7.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.