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Table 3 Nurse’s responses on knowledge of preoperative patient teaching in Northwest Amhara Comprehensive Specialized Referral Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia 2022 (N = 406)

From: Knowledge, practice, and associated factors of preoperative patient teaching among surgical unit nurses, at Northwest Amhara Comprehensive Specialized Referral Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022

Statement about preoperative patient teaching

Yes/No

Correct Answer

Wrong Answer

General knowledge

N

%

N

%

Preoperative information should not be limited to surgical patients but involves their families

Yes

287

70.7

119

29.3

Before surgery, perioperative nurses should schedule preoperative education

Yes

344

84.7

62

15.3

Preoperative teaching is the responsibility of nurses working in surgical units

Yes

271

66.7

135

33.3

Preoperative patient education increases preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing surgery

No

218

53.7

188

46.3

Preoperative patient education will minimize postoperative problems in surgical patients

Yes

301

74.1

105

25.9

Preoperative patient education helps patients understand what to expect following surgery

Yes

298

73.4

108

26.6

Preoperative instruction assists surgical patients in the preoperative period only

No

141

34.7

265

65.3

Teaching a patient about fasting times before to surgery is one type of preoperative instruction

Yes

303

74.6

103

25.4

Preoperative patient teaching includes medications to use perioperatively

Yes

288

70.9

118

29.1

Preoperative patient education involves explanations of the different forms of anesthetic to be used during surgery

Yes

228

56.2

178

43.8

Preoperative teaching includes information about the perioperative environment

Yes

291

71.7

115

28.3

Post-operative pain management is a part of preoperative teaching

Yes

205

50.5

201

49.5

Preoperative patients’ teaching involves postoperative deep breathing and coughing

Yes

263

64.8

143

35.2

Preoperative patient education involves early mobility and ambulation of postoperative patients

Yes

264

65

142

35

Preoperative patients’ education involves information about skin decontamination on the day of surgery

Yes

295

72.7

111

27.3

Preoperative patient education should advise patients undergoing surgery to keep their personal belongings to themselves

Yes

186

45.8

220

54.2