Phan Thi Dung
Viet Duc University Hospital, Vietnam
Title: Impacts of training program on nurses’ wound care competencies after one year of implementation
Biography
Biography: Phan Thi Dung
Abstract
This study aims to review the impacts of the nursing training program on the knowledge, skills and attitude among nurses working in seven clinical departments at Viet Duc University Hospital one year after the intervention program was conducted. It was conducted in 2014 and 2015 with the participation of 145 nurses. The data collection tool was a 16-item wound care observation checklist with four sections, namely identification, planning, implementation and evaluation. The maximum score for practice competencies was 381 points; 70% of which (or 266.7 points) is considered as adequate. For the sake of statistical analysis, the five response categories are given numerical values: highly disagree, 1 point; disagree, 2 points; neither agree nor disagree, 3 points; agree, 4 points; and highly agree, 5 points. The practice competency score is the combination of knowledge, skill and attitude scores. Data were entered into Epidata 3.1 and analyzed with SPSS 18.0. T-tests were used to make comparisons about knowledge, skills and attitude before and one year after the nursing training program was launched. Additionally Chi-square tests and p values were used to describe the differences in the proportions of variables before and after training. The study results showed that the post-training rate of nurses with adequate practice competencies increased from the pre-training survey (p<0.001). The effectiveness indicators relating to the competencies of identification, planning, plan implementation and evaluation were 31.9%; 43.3%; 71.3% and 28.3% (p<0.001). Wound care training program based on nursing competencies standards has proved to be effective.