Background: Congenital heart disease in children is the most common major congenitalanomaly that is required to be treated by cardiac catheterization which stands out as areasonable tool to diagnose and treat children of various heart diseases. The aim of the studywas to evaluate the effect of implementing educational strategies on nurses' performanceregarding cardiac catheterization for children with congenital heart disease. Research design:Quasi-experimental research design was used . Subjects and setting: Convenience samplingof nurses (50nurses) from Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac catheterization Unit atTanta Educational International Hospital. Two tools were used to collect data: Tool I:Structured interview for nurses regarding their knowledge of congenital heart diseases andcardiac catheterization. Tool II: An Observational checklist for nurses' practices. Resultsdemonstrated that Three quarters of nurses had poor knowledge and majority of them hadunsatisfactory level of practice before implementation of the educational strategies, whileimmediately and after one month total scores of nurses` knowledge and practice were improvedwith a statistical significant differences .The study concluded that: The finding of the presentstudy revealed there was significant improvement of nurses' knowledge and practices afterimplementing of educational strategies. The study recommended thatContinues in-service training programs for all nurses should be conducted in order to improve,update and refresh their knowledge and practices regarding cardiac catheterization for childrenwith congenital heart disease
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