Author(s)

Heba Nasrate¹, Aseel Shamlawi², Muhammad W. Darawad¹

¹School of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
²Albasheer Hospital, Amman, Jordan.

Background: Physical Restraint (PR) has been widely used in the intensive care units, which aims to protect patients and maintain their safety. With all benefits of PR, there are many complications and risks from improper utilization. Further, no Jordanian studies have found to educate nurses regarding the proper PR utilization. Purpose: To evaluate the impact of an educational program on nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice regarding PR use in ICUs. Methods: A pre-experiment with one-group pretest-posttest design was used among 40 ICU nurses. A self-administered questionnaire was used to evaluate nurses before the education program and two weeks after its completion. Results: After implementation of the program, nurses demonstrated a significant difference in knowledge scores between pretest (M = 10.35 ± 1.73) and posttest (M = 13.30 ± 1.47) (t = 9.92; df = 39; P = 0.000), attitudes scores (M = 27.90 ± 2.79 vs. M = 30.40 ± 2.32) (t = 4.61; df = 39; P = 0.000), and practice scores (M = 36.85 ± 1.98 vs. M = 40.52 ± 1.60) (t = 11.59; df = 39; P = 0.000). Conclusion: Service-education program can improve ICU nurses’ knowledge, and enhance their attitudes and practices towards physical restraint. Such improvement is expected to be reflected in improving the quality of care delivered to the patients, and decreasing complications of malpractice regarding physical restraint.

Physical Restraint, Educational Program, ICU Nurses, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Jordan

Nasrate, H. , Shamlawi, A. and W. Darawad, M. (2017) Improving ICU Nurses’ Practices of Physical Restraints in Jordan: Effect of an Educational Program. Health, 9, 1632-1643. doi: 10.4236/health.2017.912120.