Abstract
Asthma has a profound impact on all aspects of a patient's life. Nursing safety practice has an important role on maintaining health, preventing complications. The aim of this present study was to safety nursing practice establish, implement and evaluate the effect of implementing teaching modules for patient with bronchial asthma on at Mansoura University Hospitals. A quasi-experimental research design was used in this study on a subject: 50 nurses; 25 nurses at Mansoura University Hospital (Chest Unit & Chest ICU), and 25 nurses at Emergency Hospital (Outpatient Department and ICU) were recruited. Two tools were used to collect data; bronchial asthma safety nursing performance observation checklist and bronchial asthma safety nursing practice knowledge assessment in addition to the teaching modules of bronchial asthma nursing care developed by the researcher based on the result of the nurses' performance. The result In pre- Implementation phase, only 18% of nurses had adequate total correct knowledge and less than one third (32%) of the nurses achieved done correctly level of practice regarding safety practice care of patients with bronchial asthma. While, post-Implementation, the majority of the nurses had adequate total correct knowledge and done correctly level of practice regarding care of patients with bronchial asthma (94%& 96%) respectively. There was extremely highly statistically significant relation between nurses, level of practice and their knowledge. Study concluded that, implementing teaching modules about bronchial asthma care was effective and there was significant relation between nurses, performance before and after implementing teaching modules about safety practice for bronchial asthma. The present study recommended, in-service educational programs and update of guidelines for nurses regarding care safety practice of patients with bronchial asthma should be available.