Efficacy of purposeful educational workshop of medical and nonmedical interventions based on needs assessments in nurses

BACKGROUND The medical and nonmedical care of patients is the necessary skills in nursing profession. That it needs proper knowledge and attitude. Hence, it is important to promote nurses' knowledge and attitude by education based on need assessment. This study aimed to define the efficacy of a medical and nonmedical intervention educational workshop on nurses' knowledge and attitude until 3 months after holding the workshop in psychiatric wards of educational hospitals in Isfahan. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a quasi-experimental study. The study population comprised all nurses working in psychiatric wards of Nour and Farabi Hospitals (64) in Isfahan in 2012. An educational workshop was held through educational sessions in the form of lectures and group discussion in two above-mentioned hospitals. Nurses' level of knowledge and attitude were investigated by a researcher made questionnaire before, immediately after and 3 months after intervention. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistical tests of repeated measure ANOVA and Bonferroni. RESULTS A significant increase was observed in mean scores of nurses' knowledge immediately after and 3 months after education compared to before education (P < 0.001). Also, the mean of attitude score in 3 phases have significant different (P < 0.009). Nurses have the high satisfaction (86.3%) of need assessment based education workshop. Moreover, it is effective in the science information revival of nurses. CONCLUSION Educational sessions notably affected the promotion of nurses' knowledge and attitude. With regard to nurses' satisfaction with the workshop which was held, designing and organizing educational workshops based on constant needs assessment is suggested for the promotion of nursing cares.