The impact of empowerment of nurses' communication skills on learning the training provided to hospitalized children’s mothers Download PDF

Introduction: Mothers' knowledge of what occurs at the admission and during hospitalization as well as their acquisition of skills in the care of children, reduce their anxiety and confusion and increase their confidence in the care of the child. With effective communication, nurses can play a key role in educating mothers and encouraging them to learn in terms of knowledge and performance. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the impact of empowerment of nurses' communication skills on learning the training provided to hospitalized children’s mothers. Method: This study is clinical trial and conducted with two control and experimental groups. 128 mothers whose children were hospitalized in the children ward of the Imam Hussain (AS) Children Hospital in Isfahan, were selected by convenience sampling method and then divided into two control and experimental groups and 30 nurses working in the same ward were participated in the study by census method and then, randomly divided into two control and experimental groups. Communication skills workshop was held for experimental group of nurses. In this workshop, the methods of role-playing, collaborative discussion, broadcasting and criticism of film, etc. were used. The data was collected using researcher-made questionnaire of assessment of learning the training provided to mother. The questionnaires were filled out two times of before and a month after intervention. SPSS 16 software was used to analyze the data. .