Online Training Program Model for Effective Management of Nursing Services in Times of Crisis Such as Pandemic

NCT04778995 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2020-90
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project is designed to determine the experiences of nurses working in healthcare organizations in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and their approaches to problems experienced in qualitative design and from these results, a web-based education model is prepared for the effective management of nursing services, to increase the knowledge and skills of manager nurses. It was carried out in a quasi-experimental design. In the qualitative phase of the study, 28 people nurses were included (14 manager nurses and 14 nurses), and 61 nurse managers, including 30 intervention and 31 control group, participated in the randomized controlled quasi-experimental quantitative phase. Qualitative data were analyzed using the "Interview Form" through an in-depth interview method; Experimental data were collected via a pre- and post-questionnaire from nine web-based training videos. Qualitative data were analyzed in the MAXQDA 2020 program, and experimental data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 package program. Findings obtained from the qualitative stage; The problems regarding the institution's general management, the problems and approaches experienced by the nurses, and the problems and approaches experienced by the manager nurses were evaluated under three main themes. A pre-test / post-test questionnaire was applied to the intervention and control groups created due to the analysis of qualitative data.

Conditions

Pandemics; Crisis State; Nursing; Education

Keywords

Online Training Program; Nursing Management; Randomized controlled trial

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change after online training program on the management of nursing services in times of crisis

  While a statistically significant change is expected between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group, no statistically significant change is expected between the pre-test and post-test scores of the control group.

  Two months

Study Arms (2)

Manager nurses (Experimental group)

EXPERIMENTAL

Manager nurses who participated in the structured training program based on qualitative data. Web based training program was the intervention for this group.

Other: Structured online training program for effective management of nursing services

Manager nurses (Control group)

NO INTERVENTION

Manager nurses who were not included to the structured training program based on qualitative data. No intervention was performed for this group.

Interventions

Structured online training program for effective management of nursing services OTHER

An online structured training program was prepared to reach out to manager nurses for increasing their knowledge regarding the effective management of nursing services in crisis periods. A web page was structured with the support of a professional computer engineer. Participant manager nurses could log into the system via a personal username and password on the main login screen of the site. In this page, there is an "Informed Consent Form". In the "Download Training Documents" link; the educational content prepared in sections was presented. Educational content consisted of the issues such as: Management of Crises and Emergency Situations, Leadership in Crisis, Planning and Managing Nurse Human Power in Crisis, Supervision and Management of Patient Care, Logistics and Support Services, Communication in Extraordinary Situations, Motivation Tools Used in Extraordinary Situations, Stress Management During Crisis and Employee Adaptation and Training in Crisis.

Manager nurses (Experimental group)

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Preferably being a member of Association of Nurse Managers,
• Being a manager nurse,
• To be a manager for at least two years,
• To be at least a bachelor's degree,
• Working,
• It is to volunteer to participate in the study.

You may not qualify if:

• Participating in the first stage of the research,
• Not being an executive nurse,
• Less than two years of management experience
• To be a high school or associate degree graduate,
• Not working actively,
• Not willing to participate in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa: lead
• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa

Istanbul, 34382, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Veenema TG, Deruggiero K, Losinski S, Barnett D. Hospital Administration and Nursing Leadership in Disasters: An Exploratory Study Using Concept Mapping. Nurs Adm Q. 2017 Apr/Jun;41(2):151-163. doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000224.

  PMID: 28263273 RESULT

• Wang H, Feng J, Shao L, Wei J, Wang X, Xu X, Shao R, Zhang M, He J, Zhao X, Liang T. Contingency management strategies of the Nursing Department in centralized rescue of patients with coronavirus disease 2019. Int J Nurs Sci. 2020 Apr 4;7(2):139-142. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2020.04.001. eCollection 2020 Apr 10.

  PMID: 32292636 RESULT

• Grasselli G, Pesenti A, Cecconi M. Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response. JAMA. 2020 Apr 28;323(16):1545-1546. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4031. No abstract available.

  PMID: 32167538 RESULT

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 20, 2021
• First Posted: March 3, 2021
• Study Start: July 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2020
• Study Completion: December 30, 2020
• Last Updated: March 3, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-02

Locations

TU (1)