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Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage
BACKGROUND: Mobile health has the potential to revolutionize the role of educators by empowering nurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, this study was designed to examine the effect of mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791430/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29417070 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_29_17 |
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author | Yazdannik, Ahmadreza Dsatjerdi, Elham Izadi Mohamadirizi, Shahla |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mobile health has the potential to revolutionize the role of educators by empowering nurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, this study was designed to examine the effect of mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A two groups’ pool blind quasi-experimental study was performed on emergency department nurses working in hospitals affiliated with Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The study was conducted from September to November 2014. Sample size was calculated as 35 participants in each group (a total of seventy participants). Participants were divided into two groups of mobile health and workshop, randomly. Participants’ knowledge score was collected according to researcher-made questionnaire with twenty questions. SPSS version 11.5 was used to conduct statistical tests such as independent t-test and paired t-test for analyzing the data with the significant level <0.05. RESULTS: The results show that there was not any significant difference between the knowledge scores of mobile health and workshop group before intervention, but there was a significant difference after 2-week intervention (P = 0.012). CONCLUSION: The electronic program was an attractive education method for emergency nurses because in these method educators by empowering nurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, it is suggested that mobile health is used by authorities along with routine training, due to its less cost and spending less time. |
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spelling | pubmed-57914302018-02-07 Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage Yazdannik, Ahmadreza Dsatjerdi, Elham Izadi Mohamadirizi, Shahla J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Mobile health has the potential to revolutionize the role of educators by empowering nurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, this study was designed to examine the effect of mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A two groups’ pool blind quasi-experimental study was performed on emergency department nurses working in hospitals affiliated with Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The study was conducted from September to November 2014. Sample size was calculated as 35 participants in each group (a total of seventy participants). Participants were divided into two groups of mobile health and workshop, randomly. Participants’ knowledge score was collected according to researcher-made questionnaire with twenty questions. SPSS version 11.5 was used to conduct statistical tests such as independent t-test and paired t-test for analyzing the data with the significant level <0.05. RESULTS: The results show that there was not any significant difference between the knowledge scores of mobile health and workshop group before intervention, but there was a significant difference after 2-week intervention (P = 0.012). CONCLUSION: The electronic program was an attractive education method for emergency nurses because in these method educators by empowering nurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, it is suggested that mobile health is used by authorities along with routine training, due to its less cost and spending less time. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5791430/ /pubmed/29417070 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_29_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Yazdannik, Ahmadreza Dsatjerdi, Elham Izadi Mohamadirizi, Shahla Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title | Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title_full | Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title_fullStr | Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title_full_unstemmed | Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title_short | Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage |
title_sort | utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about emergency severity index triage |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791430/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29417070 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_29_17 |
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