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Publication Date: 2023
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Educational Material for Nurses in Managing Patients with Neurogenic Bladder
Redboy, Simone
ProQuest LLC, D.N.P. Dissertation, Walden University
Neurogenic bladder is common in patients with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, spinal bifida, and stroke. Many patients who have these diseases struggle to control their bladder. Neurogenic bladder can be defined as the inability to completely empty the bladder. For managing the bladder, clinicians usually opt for using an indwelling urinary catheter for those patients. Indwelling urinary catheters are a source of infection and do not help the patient regain continence. Research findings show that frequent toileting and monitoring with bladder scanning benefit patients with neurogenic bladder and help patients restore continence. To address a knowledge gap, this new procedure of bladder management was taught to direct care nurses and addressed whether teaching the new procedure of bladder management would be effective in increasing nurses' knowledge to allow them to be more efficient in the use of an evidence-based approach to neurogenic bladder management compared to the older version of using an indwelling catheter for bladder management. Their understanding of this new procedure in neurogenic bladder management took place with a pre posttest design. A PowerPoint presentation was done to educate them on the topic of managing NB with the bladder protocol that incorporated the idea of the toileting program. A pretest was first given to them to followed by the presentation. Then a posttest were presented to them to evaluate if learning has occurred The result shows that 100% of staff nurses (N= 10) scored higher on the posttest, suggesting that learning of the bladder protocol and managing NB had occurred. This new practice is anticipated to change patients' lives and provide a positive social change. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Education, Medical Services, Special Health Problems, Patients, Evidence Based Practice
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