Nursing Outcome in Patients with Craniofacial Anomalies Who Underwent Operation
Darawan Augsornwan RN, MPH*, Pantamanas Pattangtanang BNS*, Kritsana Pikhunthod BNS*, Palakorn Surakunprapha MD**
Affiliation : * Surgical and Orthopaedic Department, Division of Nursing, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand ** Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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.
Material and Method: 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%.
Conclusion : 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.
Keywords : Nursing outcome, Craniofacial anomalies, Patients who underwent operation
