Abstract:
Background: Hip fractures are common injuries affecting the proximal femur of hip
joint. In Sudan, hip fracture remains a huge problem and concerns many Sudanese
families the costs of her surgeries are very expensive, and they depletes country a lot
of resources, and it is causes are due to road traffic accident and gunshots among the
military . The Nurses are playing vital role regarding care of patient with hip fracture
through over caring. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of
educational program on nurses' knowledge regard care of patient with hip fracture.
Objective: To outline the effects of educational program on nurses’ knowledge
regarding care of patients with hip fracture in White Nile State Governmental
Hospital and Omdurman Military Hospital.
Materials and Methods: A Quasi-experimental study was done for nurses (N=70),
whom they are work in White Nile governmental hospitals and Omdurman military
hospital. Selection was done purposive total coverage; knowledge of nurses was
assessed by structural questionnair222\e. The collected data was analyzed by (SPSS)
version 24.
Results: Most of study sample has moderate knowledge by 52% with mean and
standard deviation (67.3 += 19.4) in pretest and improved to become good
knowledgeable after intervention of the program by 72% with mean and standard
deviation (78.3 += 13.1). 67.1% don’t receive any training program regard hip
fracture so the study group had moderate knowledge .the study found significant
statistical association between knowledge pre and post program by p value (0.00) also
the study found there is no significant statistical association between knowledge and
years of experience by p value (0.216).
Conclusion: The study indicated that the educational programs were effective in increasing
knowledge of study group.
Keywords: Educational program, Intervention, Nurses, Knowledge, Hip fracture.
Introduction
Hip fracture poses a significant global challenge both to healthcare systems and to
patients themselves. There were 1.31 million hip fractures in 1990, a figure predi
