Abstract: Training healthcare staff, especially nurses, is one of the challenging in healthcare during hajj season. According to healthcare statistics on 1434H, nurses represented the largest group working in hajj season with more than 31%. Limitation of space and time synchronized with such huge number of nurses' staff who always need to be trained on maintaining patient safety specially when dealing with guests of Allah, are emerging the need for e-learning strategy. The objectives of this research were to assess nurses' knowledge in patient safety before and after viewing patient safety e-learning course and to evaluate the effectiveness of the e-learning course on nurses' patient safety knowledge during hajj season, 1436H in Makkah and Al- Mashaer Al- Moqadasah hospitals and primary healthcare centres. The research methodology followed was experimental design, specifically one group pre-post examination experimental method by using an e-learning course of patient safety. Purposive sampling technique was applied to formulate the sample of this research. The e-learning course has been introduced online for one month. After that period of time, the results were as follows: knowledge level of the research sample on pre-exam was fairly high. They got significantly higher scores on post-exam than those on pre-exam. The result [T = 5.5, P = 0.000], and value of h2 (0.16) demonstrated the significant differences between the level of nurses' knowledge on patient safety before and after viewing the e-learning course. The researcher reached to a conclusion that nurses were fairly knowledgeable about patient safety on pre-exam. When they enrolled on a patient safety e-learning course, they displayed a great improvement in their knowledge regarding patient safety. This proved that e-learning can be a precious and effective strategy for hospitals and primary healthcare centers when training a large number of nursing staff on any updating in patient safety.
Keywords: E-Learning- Training- Nursing- Patient Safety- JCI- Hajj –Saudi Arabia- Makkah.
Title: The Effect of an E-learning Course of Patient Safety on Nursing Staff’s Knowledge: Pre-Post Examination
Author: Fatin Sabbagh, Areej A. Al-Shamasi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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