EFFECT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON NURSES, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ABOUT ORAL CARE FOR TRAUMATIZED PATIENTS

Background: Oral care is a basic nursing care procedure that improves patient comfort and prevents oral infection, although oral care is a common requirement of nursing practice, providing intubated patients. Continue education programs on oral care for improving the knowledge and skills of intensive care nurses. Objective: The aim of this research was to study effect of educational program on nurse's knowledge and skills about oral care for traumatized patients. Method: the presented study was conducted in trauma intensive care unit at Assuit university hospital. a convenience sample of all available nurses (about 52 nurse) 30 were nursing diploma and 22 bachelor degree during one year, subject two tools, the data were collected using tool I pre/post questionnaire sheet for assessment of nurses knowledge, too II pre/post observation checklist to assess nurse skills. The results of this study indicated that the nurses ' knowledge about oral care was the majority of nurses had unsatisfactory total knowledge pre education program. It improved to 86.7 % in diploma nurses and 100 % in bachelor degree. Immediately post education program, also, the majority of nurse's skills were inadequate pre education; they improved to 93.3 % in diploma nurses and 100 % in bachelor degree, also there were significant difference between all studied nurses. Conclusion:The study concluded that the education program lead to significant improvement in nurse's knowledge and skills about oral care procedure