Badria Mahrous Abdelhameed Mohammed’s scientific contributions

A spinal cord injury occurs when the communication between the brain and the rest of the body is disrupted, causing loss of movement and feeling below the level of injury. The aim was to determine the effect of video-assisted teaching program on nurses' performance regarding the care of patients with spinal cord injury. Subjects and method: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used to conduct the current study. Setting: the study was conducted at the general intensive care unit and neurological intensive care unit in Suez Canal University hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 50 nurses was included in the study. Three tools were used: Two tools were used for data collection were 1) Nurses self-administered questionnaire sheet. It included two parts. part one is concerned with the assessment of the demographic characteristics of the studied nurses and part two is concerned with nurses' knowledge questionnaire regarding caring for patients with spinal cord injury.2) Nurses' observational checklist about nursing performance for patients with spinal cord injury to assess nurses' performance. Results: There were highly significant improvements in nurses' knowledge and performance regarding spinal cord injury pre and post video-assisted teaching program (P=0.005). The results of the present study revealed that there was a positive significant correlation between nurses' knowledge and their performance level regarding caring for patients with spinal cord injury pre and post-video-assisted teaching program. Conclusion: The current study concluded that video-assisted structured teaching program had a highly significant positive effect on improving nurses' performance regarding the care of patients with spinal cord injury. Recommendations: Application of video-assisted structured teaching program for nurses working with spinal cord injury patients at intensive care unit to improve their performance Keywords Nurses' Performance; Patients with Spinal Cord Injury; Video-Assisted Teaching program

COVID -19 pandemic affected the global population, and infection is a high risk among nurses in surgical units. Because is particularly prevalent in health care settings, nurses' educational institutions must take steps to safeguard themselves and others during the outbreak by preventing COVID -19 and caring for infected COVID-19 patients. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines regarding covid-19onnurses' knowledge and practices in the surgical unit. Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at Surgical Unit at Fayoum University Hospital. Sample: The study included a convenient sample of all surgical nurses (30 nurses). Three tools for data collection were used: (1) Demographic structured interview sheet, (2) surgical nurses’ knowledge regarding Covid-19 assessment questionnaire, and (3) surgical nurses’ practices regarding preventive measures of COVID -19 observation checklists. Results: Less than two-thirds of the studied nurses received training courses regardingCOVID-19 before. The majority of the studied nurses reported that their main source of information about knowledge regarding COVID-19 was doctors. Nurses' knowledge of COVID -19 improved after one month of implementing instructional guidelines (P=0.001), with a highly statistically significant difference between pre/post one month of instructional guidelines (P=0.001). A statistically significant correlation was found between the scores of the studied nurses' COVID-19 knowledge and practice. Conclusion: The study concluded that instructional guidelines implementation for nurses in the surgical unit had a positive effect on improving nurses' knowledge and practice regarding COVID-19 with significant differences one month after instructional guidelines implementation. Recommendation: In- service training program for nurses in the surgical unit to improve their knowledge and practices on the management of covid-19.

Background: Post-mastectomy exercise is an important part of female breast cancer patients' recovery after mastectomy as well as after radiotherapy to maintain their shoulder movement and to prevent side effects as radiation-induced fibrosis. These exercises can increase shoulder and arm motion and usually be started in a few days. Aim: To evaluate the effect of booklet-based education versus mobile-based education on women’s knowledge and practice related lymphedema regarding post mastectomy exercise. Design: A quasiexperimental research design was used with a pre-and post-test. Setting: The research was conducted at inpatient and outpatient clinic of Fayoum Oncology Center, Fayoum governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of 200 post-mastectomy women was included (100 were taught using a mobile Whats app application and 100 were taught using a booklet). Tools: Tool I: women' structured interviewing questionnaire, Tool II: women' knowledge regarding post mastectomy exercise, and Tool III: women' practices regarding post mastectomy exercise (pre/post). Results: The study results indicated that the main source of knowledge among post-mastectomy women was doctors. The results revealed that the knowledge and practices of both groups were improved posteducation. The mobile-based education group showed more improvement in their knowledge compared to the booklet -based education group. There were statistically significant correlations between total knowledge and practice scores of the studied women. A significant improvement was detected between the two groups regarding improving degree of arm lymphedema post education. P<0.05. Conclusion: Mobile-based education was more effective in improving post-mastectomy women's knowledge and practices regarding post mastectomy exercise than those who taught by booklet-based education. Recommendations: Mobilebased educational methods can be used for post mastectomy women regarding post mastectomy exercise to improve their knowledge and practices. Keywords: Booklet, Mobile-based education, Post mastectomy exercise, Woman's knowledge and practice related lymphedema; and post mastectomy arm lymphedema.