title: Nursing outcome in patients with craniofacial anomalies who underwent operation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Northeast of Thailand has patients with craniofacial anomalies about 2.5: 1,000 children birth. Ward 3C Srinagarind Hospital has about 150-200 cases of patients with craniofacial anomalies each year. Some of them have an operation about 10 times. When the patients go to hospital to undergo operation, patients and families experience fear and anxiety. They need information about their disease, operation, feeding and wound care. Nurses who work continuously and closely with the patients need to have ability to support patients needs by using nursing process. Nursing outcome will help nurses to measure the quality of nursing care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study nursing outcome in the patients with craniofacial anomalies who were admitted in 3C ward.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study is retrospective descriptive study. Data was collected from medical records of 27 patients with craniofacial anomalies who were admitted in 3C ward Srinagarind Hospital between June 2010 to May 2011. Medical records were purposively selected for the study and recorded with a data collection form.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The authors found that 2.36% of patients had wound infection. 100% of parents received information about disease, medication, self care but some information was not received or was received but not understand. 1 case of patients unplanned readmit. Length of stay of patient 2.74 days. Parents satisfaction is 91.81%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients had wound infection when back home because care giver cannot clean patients wound correctly, parents and care giver did not receive enough information or did not understand all information.
authors: Surgical and Orthopaedic Department, Division of Nursing, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. darawana@hotmail.com
authors: Darawan
authors: D
authors: Augsornwan
authors: Pantamanas
authors: P
authors: Pattangtanang
authors: Kritsana
authors: K
authors: Pikhunthod
authors: Palakorn
authors: P
authors: Surakunprapha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019465:Craniofacial Abnormalities / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome