Effect of Educational Instructions on Nurses' Performance Regarding Common Alarms Indicators at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Background: Clinical alarms, particularly in neonatal Intensive care units, arevital for alerting healthcare providers when a neonate requires immediate attention.Fatigue from alarms occur when nurses are subjected to plenty of numerousalarms, resulting ignorance, postponed reaction to alarms that may result in severehealth problems to neonates. Aim: Evaluate the effect of educational instructionson nurses' performance regarding common alarms indicators at neonatal intensivecare unit. Subjects and Method: Design: A quasi- experimental research designwas used Sample: A convenience sampling of (70) nurses who are working atNeonatal Intensive Care Unit of Tanta Main University Hospital were included.Tools: two tools were used, Tool I: Nurses, knowledge questionnaire regardingCommon Alarms Indicators Tool II: Common Alarms Indicators ObservationChecklists. Results: Most of the studied nurses had moderate level of knowledgeand the majority of them had unsatisfactory practices pre educational instruction,whereas immediately following the educational instruction and after one month,the majority of nurses had high knowledge and satisfactory practice. Conclusion:There was a notable improvement in nurses' performance regarding commonalarms indicators at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Recommendations:Performing recurring training in service education as nursing guidelines for nursesat Intensive Care Units to improve their knowledge and practices regarding devicesalarms management