Developing Nursing Care Standards for Patients Post Discectomy

Postoperative nursing care standards of discectomy are the baseline for quality nursing care and the guide of knowledge, and skills that are needed to practice nursing care safely. This descriptive study aimed at establishing the level of nurses knowledge and practice and to examine the relationship between nurses knowledge and practice for developing the nursing care standards for patients post discectomy. This study was conducted in the Neurosurgery Department at Assiut University Hospital. A convenient sample of 30 nurses was included in this study. Data collected by utilizing the designed questionnaire sheet and observation checklist sheet. The results can be concluded that all of nurses (100%) had an unsatisfactory level knowledge regarding standards for patients post discectomy with Mean±SD (9.6±5). All of nurses (100%) had an inadequate level practice regarding standards for patients post discectomy with Mean±SD (89.7±17.4). It was found that there was a strong relationship (7—.815, p=.0001) between total knowledge score and total practice score regarding standards for patients post discectomy. Conclusion: It can be concluded that, Nurses knowledge and practice regarding standards for patient post discectomy are at an unsatisfactory and inadequate level and it was needed to be improved through implementation of proposed nursing care standards.