Date of Conferral
2022
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
School
Nursing
Advisor
Patricia Schweickert
Abstract
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic illness affecting over 100,000 Americans annually. SCD causes severe pain, which may require frequent hospital admissions for pain control. A high level of patient self-care knowledge is needed to prevent readmissions. Patients usually receive self-care education at hospital discharge from nurses, who may not know about self-care in SCD. Inadequate patient education on self-management of SCD at hospital discharge can lead to hospital readmissions. There was a gap in knowledge among RNs regarding SCD self-care at the local facility. This doctoral project was intended to educate nurses about SCD self-management to increase their knowledge. The project question asked whether an education program on patient self-management of SCD would increase the knowledge of RNs about the management of SCD. Transformational learning theory served as the foundation for this project. There were 19 participants who completed the pretest and posttest to determine whether there was an improvement in their knowledge after the education intervention. A t test was used to analyze the data, which was used to examine differences in the mean of the pre- and post-intervention scores, which was found to be statistically significant. Increasing the knowledge of care team providers and patients may contribute to positive social change by improving patient outcomes.
Recommended Citation
McCullough, Angel Amaura, "Improving Nurses' Knowledge of Patient Self-Management of Sickle Cell Disease" (2022). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 13564.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/13564
