• Amal Sabry Abd El Samiea
• Iman Ibrahim Abd El-Moniem
• Salma El-Sayed Hassan Mohamed

Cardiac surgery places children at risk for numerous significant health problems and complications. Systematic nursing intervention is vital during the post-operative period to identify rapidly any complications and deterioration in children's condition. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of nursing management protocol on postoperative care among children with cardiac surgery. Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at the Pediatric Intensive Care Units for postoperative heart surgery at Cardiac Surgery Academy. Subject: A purposive sample composed of 76 working at the previously mentioned setting and giving care for children with cardiac surgery. Tools: It included two tools; a pre designed interviewing questionnaire and observation checklists. Results: less than one quartet of the studied nurses had satisfactory total knowledge about care of the children undergoing cardiac surgery pre implementation of the nursing protocol compared to less than three quarters of them post implementation with a statistically significant difference. Nurses' practices were statistically improved post implementation of the nursing protocol. Conclusion: It can be concluded that, the nursing protocol led to significant improvements in nurses' knowledge and practices related to postoperative care among children with cardiac surgery. Recommendations: Implementing nursing intervention protocol should be provided to all PICUs nurses to improve and update their knowledge and skills concerning cardiac surgery. Further research is proposed to examine the effect of the implementation of this protocol on reducing the incidence of post-operative complications.

Cardiac Surgery, Nursing Intervention protocol, Nurses’ Performance. Practice, Skills, Children

"Effect of Nursing Management Protocol on Postoperative Care Children with Cardiac Surgery", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.a423-a436, December-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212049.pdf

"Effect of Nursing Management Protocol on Postoperative Care Children with Cardiac Surgery", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no. ppa423-a436, December-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212049.pdf