Evidence Based Practice Discharge Patient Education Among Diploma And Degree Holder Nurses In Public Hospital Lahore Pakistan

Nursing is a backbone profession in the field of health, look after the sick client & improve health status revolves around this profession. Nurses are responsible for given education to admitted patient & also responsible for given instructions & complete education at the time of discharge. Nurses play a key role providing education to patient specially discharges education because patient’s home treatment totally depends on discharge education. Nurses given discharge education to the patient according to their disease process then reduce re-admission ratio, improve the quality of life & minimize problem related to health. Discharge education has a vital role in preventing potential problems & readmissions. However, if nurses cannot give effectively discharge education to the patient can be negative effects on the patient outcomes, increase re-admission ratio & health care costs also increase. The purpose of this study to assess the practice of discharge patient education among diploma holder nurses & degree holder nurses. This study was conducted in Punjab Institute of Cardiology and Services Hospital Lahore. The design of this study was cross-sectional. The sample size of this study was 288 nurses including diploma and degree holder nurses for their response by 15 close ended questions in order to determine the Evidence Based Practice discharge education. An independent samples test was used. Following a Patricia Benner theory, she is very well known to nurses for her novice to expert. The response of the participant was recorded on a 5-Lekert scale; 1 for strongly disagree, 2 for disagree, 3 for neutral, 4 for agree, 5 for strongly agree. The result of this study shows insignificant in practice of discharge patient education in diploma holder nurses and shows significant in practice of discharge patient education in degree holder nurses the total means score of nurses was Punjab Institute of Cardiology & 38.1% (n=80) from Services Hospital Lahore (mean=1.38, SD=0.486) Nursing was drive improved patient outcomes & quality of life. Health status improved if effective education was providing adapting to Evidence Based Practice