Nurses' Knowledge and Practice Concerning Changing Shift

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate nurses' knowledge about patients' handoff and to evaluate nurses' practice toward patients' handoff. to find out The relationship between nurses' knowledge and practice toward patients' handoff and for their demographic characteristic of age, gender, level of education, experience and number of training Courses.

 Methodology: The descriptive cross-sectional study The design is based on questioning interviewing members of the study population in order to describe the phenomenon being studied in terms of its nature and degree of existence, as well as on observation was carried out at the Fallujah General Teaching Hospital. It started from of 20 of September 2023 to 15 June.the questionnaire items was constructed by the researcher the questionnaire based on extensive review of related previous studies and consists of the following:

First one deals with socio-demographic characteristics include nurses age, gender, level of education  , years of experience and number of training. Second one deals with nurses knowledge towards Patient's Handoff which developed by the researchers according to extensive literature and previous studies. Third one with nurses practices towards Patient's Handoff which developed by the researchers according to extensive literature and previous studies

Results: The results demonstrated that   of nurses expressed a poor knowledge towards Patient's Handoff The results demonstrated that   of nurses expressed inadequate practices towards patient's handoff .The analysis of variance showed that there were no statistically significant differences in knowledge and practices between nurses with respect to their age groups .there were statistically significant differences in knowledge  between nurses who are male or female;  and no statistically significant differences in practise  between nurses who are male or female .The analysis of variance showed that there were statistically significant differences in knowledge   between nurses with respect to their education level  Through analysis of variance showed that there were statistically significant difference in knowledge  and practices   between nurses with respect to their years of experience . Through analysis of variance, it was established that there are statistically significant difference in knowledge and practices among nurses with regard to the number of their training.

Conclusions: There is a The results demonstrated that   of nurses expressed a poor knowledge towards Patient's Handoff The results demonstrated that of nurses expressed inadequate practices towards patient's handoff.

Recommendations: Encouraging the establishment of courses and training programs related to the handoff mechanism, and providing educational brochures for nursing workers to improve their knowledge, which leads to improving their performance.