Enhancing nurses’ Resilience, knowledge, and perception regarding ICU psychosis

Abstract

Delirium is common in patients admitted to the ICU. It is an under-detected problem. Nurses' position at the forefront of patient care does not always lead to successful delirium assessment and management. Nurses working with those patients are in challenging and a potentially high stress. This f stress can lead to harmful impacts for those nurses as burnout or physical and mental health problems. Resilience is a positive adaptation to nurses’ stress management ability and mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to enhance the nurses’ Resilience, knowledge, and perception regarding ICU psychosis. Design: This study followed a quasi- experimental research design. Setting: It was conducted at intensive care unit located at Kafr- elsheikh general Hospital. Subject: The subjects of this study included 50 psychiatric nurses. Tools: Three tools were used to collect data of this study, Tool I: '' Nurses' perception questionnaire regarding delirium'', Tool II; '' Nurses' knowledge questionnaire regarding delirium and its risk factors'', Tool II: The Connor –Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Results: The main results revealed that there were marked significant improvement in the studied nurse total scores of resilience, knowledge and perception concerning delirium after implementation of the education program. were a statistically significant positive correlation between nurses’ resilience, knowledge, and perception regarding delirium. Conclusion: The present study concluded that, the educational program sessions played a vital role in improvements of nurses' level of resilience, knowledge, and perception toward ICU psychosis. Recommendations: This study recommended that replicating the study using a larger sampler size