Open-heart Surgery Complications Following Programmed Education and Nurses' Clinical Competence

• Main Authors: Mahnaz Rakhshan, Zeinab Khoshnoo, Zahra Molazem, Najaf Zare
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Light House Polyclinic Mangalore 2017-01-01
• Series: Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
• Subjects: Post-open-heart surgery complications; Patient education; Nurses' clinical competence
• Online Access: http://www.ojhas.org/issue60/2016-4-5.html

Heart surgery can lead to certain complications that, if not diagnosed and treated on time, can be fatal. In view of the fact that nurses' clinical competence affects the quality of clinical judgment, the present study aimed to explore the effect of programmed education and nurses' clinical competence on complications following open-heart surgeries. The results of the present study showed that a closer attention to regular and programmed education and informing of open-heart surgery patients, especially before surgery and at the time of discharge, along with the clinical competence of nurses in ICUs, can reduce the incidence of post-surgery complications. Since the nurses' clinical competence greatly affects their clinical judgments and quality of care, paying greater attention to the nurses' education through systematic programs and increasing the clinical competence can lead to fewer post-heart-surgery complications; this, in turn, reduces the length of stay and the ensuing costs.