Objective To explore the application effectiveness of clinical nursing pathway in treatment of moderate childhood lead poisoning.
Methods The study randomized 92 hospitalized childhood patients of moderate lead poisoning into a control group and an observation group, each including 46 cases. Based on holistic nursing, conventional nursing was applied to the control group; besides above nursing approach, clinical nursing pathway was applied to the observation group.
Results Through holistic intervention in accordance with the established clinical nursing pathway, decreases in the average length of hospital stay (8.3& #177;0.95) d vs. (10.7& #177;1.34) d and average hospital expenses(4620.20& #177;154.47) Yuan RMB vs. (5147.20& #177;132.15) Yuan RMB were found in the observation group when compared with corresponding indices of the control group. The positive rates of lead elimination test were 91.30% for the observation group and 69.56% for the control group (P<0.01). The patients of the observation group reported higher rates than those of the control group in nursing satisfaction, health education awareness, completion of lead elimination therapy, and regular follow-up visits (P<0.05).
Conclusion Clinical nursing pathway plays an active role in the treatment of moderate lead poisoning in children, and thus worths promoting in similar clinical settings.
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