Evaluating an educational program for enhancing neonatal intensive and special care nurses’ and midwives’ competence with neonatal pain management: A quasi-experimental study

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Mala, Onanong
Kain, Victoria
Forster, Elizabeth
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2023
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Competence in neonatal pain management is influenced by the clinician’s knowledge, attitudes, and skills. The impact of an educational program on enhancing competence among Thai neonatal nurses and midwives has never been explored. This study aims to evaluate the impact of an educational program to increase nurses’ and midwives’ competence in neonatal pain management in Thai neonatal intensive and special care units (NI/SCUs). A web-based learning package with pre-, post-, and follow-up online questionnaire was administered to 68 neonatal nurses and midwives. There was a substantial increase in the total mean scores of knowledge, attitudes, and perceived self-competence in the post- and follow-up phases compared to the pre-test phase (p < 0.001). The educational program had a significant impact on Thai NI/SCU nurse and midwife competence regarding neonatal pain management. Ongoing education is needed to sustain clinicians’ competence in this area.

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Journal of Neonatal Nursing

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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Neonatal Nurses Association. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Nursing

Neonatology

Pain

Paediatrics

Midwifery

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Mala, O; Kain, V; Forster, E, Evaluating an educational program for enhancing neonatal intensive and special care nurses’ and midwives’ competence with neonatal pain management: A quasi-experimental study, Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 2023

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