Effect of an Instructional Program on Nurses' Skills pertaining to Pediatric Interagency Integrated Triage Tool in Mosul Hospitals

Background: Triage is a critical process in emergency medicine that involves the rapid assessment and prioritization of Pediatrics based on the severity of their conditions. Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of an instructional program on nurses' skills pertaining to pediatric Interagency Integrated Triage Tool at pediatric emergency departments in hospitals in Mosul. Methods: Quasi experimental design study was carried out at pediatric emergency departments in Mosul hospitals from September 5, 2024, to December 25, 2024. Sample selection was conducted in collaboration with nursing departments in Mosul hospitals for both the intervention and control groups. A random selection process was then used to choose nurses from hospitals for the experimental group and the control group. The instructional program was lecture-based and the questionnaire survey was constructed by the researchers and distributed among nurses to evaluate the effect of the instructional program on nurses’ skills pertaining to pediatric Interagency Integrated Triage Tool. The instructional content contained five lectures with the questionnaire was divided into two sections. The validity was tested by a panel of 20 experts, who substantiated the construct validity and content clarity. To statistically test the reliability of instruments, a pilot test was run from September 22-26, 2024 by used Cronbach's alpha, the results was (0.810) Results: The statistical analysis of nurses' skills of the pediatric Interagency Integrated Triage Tool showed that all aspects of nurses’ skills in the experimental group in the pretest were at a 70.0% non-acceptable level, while in the posttest they reached 66.7%, an excellent level. As well as the t-test and ANOVA test, which showed that the experimental group was high significant relationship between pretest and posttest results but there was non-significant relationship for control group at p-value ≤0.05 level. Conclusion: The effect of an instructional program was proven by the highly significant relationship between nurses' skills pertaining to pediatric interagency integrated triage tool in the two research groups, one receiving instructions on the guideline and the other not.