Quality of Post Operative Nursing Care among Patients Subjected to Cardiac Surgery
Open heart surgery is a common interventional procedure for ischemic and valvular heart disease which is accompanied by postoperative care. The major indicator for the assessment of quality of nursing care is patient satisfaction which is perceived by them that have to be fulfilled during hospitalization. Considering this aim of the study was framed to find out the level of satisfaction with quality of care given by the nurses post operatively. Using Pender's "Health Promotion Model" (1987) conceptual framework a descriptive study was done to analyze the level of satisfaction among patients undergone Cardiac surgery. The overall analysis shows none of the patients are inadequately satisfied in all four areas of domain such as technical competence, information giving, assurance and empathy. 90% patients are moderately satisfied with reference to assurance. There is no significant association between levels of satisfaction of nursing care with the selected demographic variables. Also there is a high positive correlation between the technical competence and empathy (r=0.72) Hence the study concluded that assurance in post operative nursing care is found to be higher and quality of nursing care in post operative period shows satisfaction thereby inducing patient to develop good attitude towards nurses and nursing care.