英文摘要 |
Drainage tube usually remains in the body of patients with acute abdominal diseases for three to six months. Therefore, proper care of drainage tube is necessary after patients being discharged. Without appropriate care, the risk of infection will increase, which may lead to re-admission and higher cost of care. There were six patients returned to emergency room due to loosing drainage tube and two patients re-admitted because of infection from January to March in 2016. We found that patients with drainage tube remained, had poor self-care technique, with only 62.3% accurate. Further analysis revealed that possible reasons included incomplete education of drainage care from nurses, lack of awareness of drainage care, poor compliance of caring procedures, and inadequate learning during hospitalization. The improvement project included establishing a standardized operation procedure, offering a self-care chart and an abnormality self-monitoring table, organizing group education and skills training courses, and providing so-easy wound care kits. The result of this project showed that the accuracy of self-care increased to 97.1% The project suggests that group education activities can improve the quality of nursing care by increasing patient's willingness to learn. |