The Effect of Clinical Pathway Socialization with Explicit Instruction Methods on Nurse Compliance in the Implementation of the COVID-19 Clinical Pathway

Introduction: Non-compliance with the established Clinical Pathway can reduce the quality of hospital services and risk harming patient safety. Clinical pathway is an integrated service planning concept in the form of a summary of every step given to patients and becomes a service guide so that patients avoid unnecessary care, medication errors or other safety incidents. Efforts to improve nurse compliance with clinical pathways require clinical pathway socialization. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the socialization of the explicit instruction method on nurse compliance in the implementation of the COVID-19 clinical pathway. Method: : this research method uses a pre-experimental research design with a one group pretest-posttest design. The sampling technique used total sampling with a sample of 24 respondents from September to November 2021. The dependent variable in this study was the socialization of the clinical pathway with the explicit instruction method, while the independent variable was nurse compliance in the implementation of the COVID-19 clinical pathway. Data was taken by means of observation using a clinical pathway checklist instrument which was then analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test with sig p <0.05. Results: the results of this study prove that there is a significant effect of providing socialization with the explicit instruction method on nurse compliance in the implementation of the COVID-19 clinical pathway with a value (p = 0.008) with a compliance rate of 83%. Conclusions: hospital institutions, especially in the nursing field, can use this explicit instruction method in providing socialization of the COVID-19 clinical pathway.