The Outcome of Total Knee Replacement Patient Care Program of 60-Bed Special Ward in Si Sa Ket Hospital

Abstract

The objectives of this quasi-experimental study were to compare patients, knowledge before and after the program, to evaluate the patient’s practice, to decrease length of stay and to assess the patient’s satisfaction on total knee replacement patients care program. The samples were 15 total knee replacement patients who had undergone surgery and admitted to 60-bed special ward from October 2010 to September 2011. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire of knowledge, patient’s practice and satisfaction. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and paired t-test.

The result showed that the patients, knowledge after the program was higher than before the program, significantly at 0.01 level. It practice about exercise of leg, knee flexion and walking were complete. The length of stay decreased from nine to six days and their satisfaction was at the highest level. As such the education, pre-operative teaching about exercise of leg and knee flexion and continuous care gave the patient confidence to do early exercise of leg and knee flexion.