{"id":4671,"date":"2023-03-28T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jphres.org\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:33:35","slug":"assessing-primary-health-care-nurses-knowledge-toward-immunizations-a-quantitative-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/1716\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing primary health care nurses knowledge toward immunizations: A quantitative study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item doi\"><span class=\"value\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1716\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2020.1716<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"item authors\">\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Ebtesam Abdulla<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Primary Healthcare Corporation, Doha, Qatar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Jessie Johnson<\/strong><br \/>\nFaculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Doha, Qatar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Sadia Munir<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">University of Calgary, Doha, Qatar.<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3047-885X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3047-885X<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Robin O&#8217;Dwyer<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Primary Health Care Corporation, Doha, Qatar.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6245-2588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6245-2588<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"item abstract\">\n<h3 class=\"label\">ABSTRACT<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Background:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The current nursing workforce needs to be skilled, confident, and competent to address the rapid change in Primary Health Care services, to align with the National Vision of Qatar. This is emphasized in the Primary Health Care Strategy 2018-2023. This strategy outlines the need of having a skilled nursing workforce to administer and educate the public about the importance of immunizations. Primary Health Care nurses emanate from several nationalities and hence possess various level of knowledge and background related to immunization administration.<br \/>\n<em><strong><br \/>\nDesign and methods<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0To assess Primary Health Care nurses\u2019 knowledge before and after the delivered immunization education program in Qatar. The study was part of a Sequential mixed method research study that aimed to assess the Primary Health Care nurses\u2019 knowledge, attitude, and practice of nurses before and after the conducted training program. A self-administered survey, specifically developed for the research project was loaded in Qualtrics and sent to participants of the immunization education program before and after training. Participants were trained in two cohorts from October to December, 2018 in Qatar. For the purposes of this paper, data about the immunization knowledge was statistically analyzed using the SPSS Software version 25 and Microsoft Excel.<br \/>\n<strong><em><br \/>\nResults:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Specific areas were identified as knowledge gaps among the participants of the two cohorts. Moreover, the developed education program showed overall improvement in the participants\u2019 knowledge.<br \/>\n<strong><em><br \/>\nConclusions:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The study results have demonstrated that the delivered immunization education program significantly increases the participants\u2019 knowledge about immunization in certain areas of the primary healthcare clinics they work, including vaccine safety, efficiency, and contraindications in the delivery of vaccines to the public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item author_bios\">\n<h3 class=\"label\">AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sub_item\">\n<div class=\"label\">Ebtesam Abdulla,\u00a0<span class=\"affiliation\">Primary Healthcare Corporation, Doha<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"value\">\n<p>Head Nurse in Primary Healthcare Clinic and completed this project as part of her masters degree in nursing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item references\">\n<h3 class=\"label\">REFERENCES<\/h3>\n<div class=\"value\">Angadi, M. 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