Assessment of Nurses Knowledge about Health Education to Patients with Brain Tumors Postoperatively
Abstract
Background and objective: Before, during and after treatment, nurses and allied health professionalsshould inform and educate patients about the risks and complications of any planned diagnostic test,intervention or treatment. Patients and families should be taught about some of the common side effectsof treatment after operation including weight loss, malnutrition, pain, fatigue, and depression. This studyaimed to assess nurses knowledge about health education for patients with brain tumors during theirpost-operative period.Materials and Method: descriptive design study was conducted at two teaching hospitals, Neurosurgicalhospital and surgical specialties hospital in Baghdad in which craniotomy was performed. Data have beencollected by using prepared form, from the period (September 5th 2012 to November 5th 2012. 50 nursesmale and female participated in the study.Results: Most of the convenient sample of the study was females 56% their educational levels were highinstitute and college graduate.34%. The study showed that nurses gender, educational level have asignificant association with their abilities of providing of health education about brain tumorspostoperatively.Conclusion: The main result of the study revealed that there were significant associations betweennurses educational level and their knowledge about health education regarding post-operative patientswith brain tumors.Keywords: health education, brain tumors, postoperatively.
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