Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices regarding Liberation Bundle in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Mohamed Seddik Ali, Reem; Nasreldin Mosbeh, Asmaa; Mohamed Hafez, Mona

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2025.444196

Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices regarding Liberation Bundle in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ 1. Assistant Lecturer at Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Damietta University, Dumyat, Egypt

² 2. Professor at Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

³ 3. Lecturer at Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/ejhc.2025.444196

Abstract

Background: Recent critical care guidelines recommended the evidence-based liberation bundle for patients at pediatric intensive care unit. However, limited information is available on the the bundle in Egyptian hospitals. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses’ knowledge and practices regarding liberation bundle in pediatric intensive care unit Settings: The study was conducted at pediatric intensive care units in New Damietta Al-Azhar University Hospital and Menoufia University Hospital, Egypt. Study design: Descriptive research design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study Subject: A convenient sample composed of 52 pediatric nurses from pediatric intensive care units at the previous mentioned settings. Tools: Two tools were used: tool one predesigned questionnaire to assess the studied nurses' knowledge regarding liberation bundle. Tool two observational checklists for liberation bundle to assess the studied nurses' actual level of practices regarding liberation bundle. Results: Revealed that all of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of knowledge and incompetent practices regarding liberation bundle Conclusion: All the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of the total knowledge and incompetent level of the total practices regarding liberation bundle in pediatric intensive care unit. Also, there was a positive correlation between the studied nurses' total level of knowledge and total level of practices regarding liberation bundle. Recommendations: Future researches are recommended to replicate the study on large probability samples in order to generalize the results.

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