Effectiveness of an Education Program on Nurse-midwives’ Practices Related to Postpartum Hemorrhage at Delivery Room of Maternity Hospitals in Baghdad city Ali Azhar Hussein1,*, Bahaaldeen Ezedeen F.2 1Nursing Teacher, Al-Yarmouk Secondary Nursing School 2Assistant Professor, Maternal and Neonate Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad *Corresponding Author: Azhar Hussein Ali, Nursing Teacher, Al-Yarmouk Secondary Nursing School Email: azhar_nhmh@yahoo.com
Online published on 13 November, 2019. Abstract Objective To determine the effect of an education program on nurse-midwives’ practices related to prevention and management of PPH, and to identify the relationship between nurse-midwives’ practices related to PPH and their age, educational level, years of experience in nursing, years of experience in midwifery and training courses. Methodology A quasi-experimental design was conducted on apurposive sample of (97) nurses who are work in delivery rooms at six maternity hospital at Baghdad City for the period from May 27th, 2018 to December 10th, 2018. A questionnaire was used to data collection and consisted of two parts; part I sociodemographic characteristics, and part II nurses-midwives’ practices which consists of (54) items as an observational checklist distributed on (8) sub-domains related to management to prevent primary PPH. Results The results revealed that 87(89.69%) seem to be similarly distributed for whom age are less than 50-years-old, 56(57.7%) are secondary midwife graduates, 64(66.0%) are married, 51(52.6%) had (1–5) years in nursing and 56(57.7%) had (1–5) years of (experience) in the delivery room, umber of training courses of PPH had (1–2) number. The overall assessment presents revealed that most were at a low and moderate levels of practice at the pretest period and became high level at posttest. Nurse-midwives’ practices not relationships within their age, education levels, and marital status. While, there is a relationship with the remaining variables (i.e. number of yrs. of total service, number of yrs. of service (experience) in the delivery room, and number of training courses related to pregnancy and childbirth). Top Keywords Nurse-midwives’ Practices; Postpartum Hemorrhage. Top |