Date of Conferral

2023

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Joan Moon

Abstract

AbstractApproximately one third of surgical patients have undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most common form of sleep disordered breathing, which presents a risk in the perioperative setting. OSA is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the adult population and has an economic impact on limited healthcare resources. The need existed for nurses in the perioperative setting to be educated on OSA, including the introduction of the STOP-BANG screening questionnaire. The analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation model of instructional design informed this project. The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to plan, implement, and evaluate a perioperative nurse education program on OSA. Three perioperative clinicians participated in the program. The first source of evidence produced by participants was the evaluation of the educational program objectives relative to the curriculum. The three participants answered “met” to each of the objectives, with met =1 and not met = 2, for a mean score of 1. The second source of evidence produced by the project was the change in knowledge from pretest to posttest, which showed a group improvement of 27% on the knowledge scores. Implications of these findings indicate that knowledge of OSA has the potential to influence improved patient outcomes and improved quality of life. The positive social change impact of this project involves increased knowledge and raised awareness among healthcare providers on the importance of recognizing undiagnosed OSA thus providing optimal safety for the patient in the surgical setting.

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