Cross Sectional Hospital Method

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2.0 MATERIALS AND METHODS
This was a descriptive, cross-sectional hospital-based study, which was conducted at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital – Zanzibar in different adults wards to assess nurse`s knowledge, practice, as well as challenges faces when caring of critically ill patients. The quantitative approach was used to collect and analyze data from the study participants. The hospital is located in Stone Town, the historic center of Zanzibar City. It serves outpatient services/clinics, specialized clinics, as well as several wards for inpatient services. The hospital attends over 600 outpatients and 71 admissions on daily bases. Mnazi Mmoja Hospital is a referral hospital, which provides care for critically ill patients in different wards. The hospital …show more content…

The questionnaire included both close and open-ended questions and, comprised three sections in order to assess the following variables:- a) socio-demographic information, b) knowledge of nurses on the initial assessment of critically ill patient, and c) challenges face on care of critically ill patient. Observation check list was used to asses in getting more information practically which is not possible to capture by using questionnaire. In this regard, the researcher observed how nurses give care to patients directly during their nurses activities. The checklist consisted of four columns. The first column was for serial number of activities, second column was for skilled observed by researcher, third column for performance of nurses which contain two parts Yes and No and the last column for remarks. Observation was participatory, the participant was conveniently selected and each participant was observed once. The researcher was around within the ward. The participants were aware that they were being …show more content…

The content validity of tool was achieved by having the questionnaire reviewed by the professional nurses in the field of critical care and trauma and research experts to assess relevance of tool items and study objectives as well as face validity the researcher discussed together with professional nurse specialists if the questionnaires are clearly worded, well explained and if it addresses what it is meant to address. To ensure reliability of instrument, the questionnaire was pretested among nurses who were not included in the study, pretested was done to 17 nurses at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital (MMH) Zanzibar, it is a 10% of the sample size to check the clarity of questions and to give clues on how much time was spent to complete questionnaire. The data collected during the pretest was not included in the study.The data was collected by the researcher together with assistance during working time. Questionnaires were filled by nurses while the checklist was filled by the researcher during observation when the nurse provide nursing

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