Construction Of Nursing   Assessment Rehabilitation Tool For Cardiac Medical Ward Patients At Baghdad Hospitals

Jaber  Mohammed, Abbas; Badri Tawfiq, Narmen

	Construction Of Nursing Assessment Rehabilitation Tool For Cardiac Medical Ward Patients At Baghdad Hospitals
kufa Journal for Nursing sciences
Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-175
Authors
Abbas Jaber Mohammed; Narmen Badri Tawfiq
Abstract
Objective : : The study aimed of construction of nursing assessment rehabilitation tool for cardiac medical ward patients at Baghdad hospital. Methodology : A descriptive, purposive sample of (60) nurses was selected from cardiac medical ward of hospitals (Ibn AL Biter Hospital For Cardiac Surgery , Iraqi center for heart disease and Ibn AL Nafees hospital ) in Baghdad city from the 15th of February 2013 to the 15th of August 2013.The constructed tool was continues of three sections: section one included the give open end-question about the physically; psychologically; socially and environmental) for construction of nursing assessment rehabilitation tool for cardiac medical ward nurse (20). section two include the nurses' demographic characteristic; section three was the initial assessment construction tool that contained (16) parts including: (general patient information , evaluation of( skin, hair and nail) , evaluation eye , evaluation ear, evaluation (mouth, nose and throat) , evaluation (head and neck), evaluation (respiratory system),evaluation (cardiac) heart evaluation peripheral vascular ,abdomen assessment, assessment urinary system ,reproductive system, breast assessment, musculoskeletal assessment, neurological assessment ),descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze the data Results: The findings revealed that the most of the study sample were male with nursing institute graduate and the majority of them employed with limited experience in cardiac medical ward in spite of that no one of them got a training course in cardiac medical ward at Baghdad hospital, the present study revealed that, the distribution of nurses' responses to the items indicated that the (general patient information )44.7%, evaluation of( skin, hair and nail) 32.8%, evaluation eye 38.1% , evaluation ear41.0% evaluation (mouth, nose and throat) 28.7% ,evaluation(head and neck)52.3% ,evaluation(respiratorysystem)63.2%,evaluation(cardiac)heart76.3%,evaluationPeripheralvascular60.2%,abdomenassessment38.9%,assessmenturinarySystem45.5%,reproductivesystem25.4%,breast assessment 13.9, % musculoskeletal assessment 43.7 %, neurological assessment 35.0 % ) .
Keywords
Construction; Nursing assessment; Rehabilitation tool; Cardiac medical Ward Patients

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