Abstract:
Background: The most common cause of myocardial infarction is occlusion of the coronary artery.
Education and training the nurses provide care for myocardial infarction patient lead to decrease
patient's morbidity and mortality. Aim: to assess the effect of training program on nurses' knowledge
toward the care of the patient with myocardial infarction. Methods: The study was conducted in car in
intensive care unit at Al-Thowrah hospital, Al-Hodeida city. A quasi-experimental design was used
from October 2018 to April 2019 on 30 nurses. Simple random sampling method was applied to
selected nurses to participate in the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data about nurse's
knowledge toward myocardial infarction pre and post training program. According the detected need
of nurses develop training program and implemented through the session to update nurses knowledge.
SPSS was used to analysis of the study variables. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and
inferential statistical in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. Paired t-test and
McNemar test also used. Results: The results revealed statistically significant difference in nurses'
knowledge related to care of myocardial infarction pre- post-training program. There was a significant
relationship between nurses' knowledge and their demographic characteristic pre-post program.
Conclusion: A statistically significant difference of nurses' knowledge pre and post-training program
was found. Pre and in-service training program should be implemented to all nurses worked in ICU to
update their knowledge about care of patient with myocardial infarction
