title: Management of hypothermia: impact of lecture-based interactive workshops on training of pediatric nurses.
abstract: This study aimed to determine the efficacy of interactive workshop on the management of hypothermia and its impact on pediatric nurses' training. This is a pretest-to-posttest quasi-experimental descriptive study. Thirty pediatric nurses attended an interactive lecture-based interactive workshop on the management of hypothermia. Participants had to accept an invitation to the presentation before the training event. They completed the lecture, and a multiple-choice question test before and after the lecture was given. There was a significant improvement in mean test scores after the lecture when compared with those before the lecture (mean [SD], 15.5 [1.3] vs 5.0 [1.7], P < 0.001). The information gained in this study will be valuable as a baseline for further research and help guide improvements in the management of hypothermia with the ultimate goal of enhancing safe and quality patient care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamentals in Nursing, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey. ialtun@kocaeli.edu.tr
authors.forename: Insaf
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Altun
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karakoç
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001831:Body Temperature; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019468:Disease Management; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000628:therapy*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000592:standards*; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult