Date of Conferral

2023

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Joan Moon

Abstract

Opioid use disorder (OUD) contributes to severe perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in the United States, leading to alarming complications for pregnant women, mothers, and newborns. Complications the mother experiences with OUD include increased mortality, overdose, infections, endocarditis, narcotic bowel syndrome, and accident-related injury. Complications the newborn can suffer include neonatal abstinence syndrome, respiratory depression, microcephaly, and sudden infant death syndrome. Framed within the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation model of instructional design, this project aimed to plan, implement, and evaluate a staff education program on opioid use disorder. The staff education program was presented to 13 perinatal nurses. A participant’s change in knowledge from the pretest to the posttest was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The group mean of the pretest was 67%, the mean of the posttest was 89%, for the mean change in knowledge was 23%. Evaluation of the educational program was completed by the participants using a dichotomous scale with met=1 and not met = 2. Analyzed using descriptive statistics, the mean was 1, showing that the participants felt the program met all the objectives. The participants recommended that the program be presented to nurses outside of the perinatal unit because of the need to increase knowledge about OUD in caring for all patients afflicted with the disorder. They also recommended having a longer period of time for the presentation. The impact of an increase in nurses’ knowledge of OUD, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and nurses’ bias/attitudes may enhance the health of pregnant women, mothers, and newborns, improving patient outcomes and the human condition.

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