The Effect of Nursing Performance on Quality of Care for Infant / Children Vaccination

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Clinical instructor Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.

2 Prof. of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.

3 Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.

Abstract

Background: The diseases that vaccines prevent can be dangerous, or even deadly,
especially in infants and young children. Aim: assess the Effect of Nursing Performance on Quality of
Care for Infant / Children Vaccination. Design: descriptive research design was used in this study.
Setting: The study was carried out in all family medical centers at Giza city. Subject: A purposive
sample was used to choose nurses and mothers that equal 135 for everyone. Tools: Interviewing
questionnaire divided to two parts as Socio-demographic characteristic, and nurses’ knowledge. The
second tool: Observational checklist to assess nurses performance and the third tool that divided to
two parts; Mothers’ satisfaction, and Mothers perception regarding nurses' quality of care Results:
This study showed that 52.6% of nurses had poor total level of Knowledge, 91.9% of nurses their
total level of Performance was ranged between poor and average and 48,9% of mothers had agree
satisfaction about children vaccination. Conclusion: Statistically, significant positive correlations
were detected between nurses performance, mothers satisfaction, and mothers perception regarding
quality of care about children vaccination. Recommendation: Developing an educational program
that would help nurses to improve knowledge and performance about vaccination.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 13, Issue 3
September 2022
Pages 666-677

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