Training Performance’s Satisfaction of Empowered Nurses from Stroke Patients Viewpoints

Stroke is a major cause of disability worldwide. Some studies have shown that nurses do not have sufficient knowledge and skills to educate and manage such patients. So, patients suffer from many problems. We investigated the effects of the nursing empowering on stroke patients satisfaction. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 29 patients with stroke who had referredto Alzahra hospital in Isfahan during 2013-2014 with the simple method. Workshops, pamphlets and booklet were used for empowering nursing. The empowered nurses trained stroke patients and finally patients filled in the satisfactions questionnaire at the time ofdischarge. The data gathering tool was a researchermade that consists of characteristics of patients, the participants’ satisfaction with self-care training and nurses’ performance. Data were analyzed by T-test. Results: 27 cases (93.10%) mentioned that they would try to follow all the training which received from nurses . 23 cases (73.10%) were satisfied with self-care training. Majority of patients, 25 participants (85%)were satisfied with the nurses’ training performance and 24 cases (82.80%) were highly satisfied with the nurses training method. Conclusions: Most patients were satisfied with self-care training held by nurses. From stroke patients’ viewpoints, the nurses’ performance and method were associated with high satisfaction. Therefore, improving nurses’ training role by empowering nurses’ is suggested to increasingpatient’s satisfaction.