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Cataract is the second cause of visual impairment and the first cause of blindness globally so inadequate nursing intervention lead to serious complications for the patient with cataract surgery. Purpose of the study: to evaluate the effect of educational nursing intervention on the nurses’ performance, patients’ daily living activities, needs and selected visual problems of cataract surgery. Setting: The current study was carried out at ophthalmology department and out patients’ ophthalamology clinic in Menoufia university hospital and El Ramad hospital in Shebin El-Kom district, Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of adult 25 nurses and 100 patients was divided into two equal groups (study and control). Tools of the study: Three tools for data collection; two tools for nurses (a self-administered questionnaire (tool I) and an observation checklist for nurses’ performance (tool II) and one tool for patients (an interview questionnaire, tool III). Results: There was a highly statistically significant improvement in total mean score of nurses’ knowledge from 27.56±3.11 pre intervention to 41.08±4.09 post intervention and after one week to 38.0±3.69 as a follow up. Also, there was a highly statistically significant improvement in the total nurse's performance mean score from 102.84±21.54 pre intervention to 245.44±22.84 post intervention and after one week to 239.84±23.05 as a follow up p < 0.001. Also, there were highly statistically significant improvements in meeting all patients’ daily living activities and needs with minimized visual complications after intervention (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Total good level of knowledge, satisfactory performance of the studied nurses significantly improved after implementing educational nursing intervention with better achievement of patients’ daily living activities and needs with major limitation in visual problems.

Palliative care is an approach to improve the quality of life for patients and their families through the prevention and relief of suffering Purpose: to determine the effect of an educational palliative nursing interventions on selected outcomes among patients having advanced cancer. Design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized (pre and posttest). Setting: The study was carried out at the oncology department of Menoufia University Hospital at Menoufia governorate. Sample: A purposive sample of 107 adults advanced cancer patients were selected for this study. Instruments: Three instruments were used. First instrument was a structured interview questionnaire about social characteristics. Second instrument was alikert scale for functional assessment of cancer. Instrument three was center for epidemiological studies depression scale. Results: there was a highly statistically significant decrease in the total mean score of depression symptoms and an improvement in theoverall quality of life domains mean score 48.64±11.52 Vs 54.38±12.79 and 62.14±17.51. Conclusion: Patients who had advanced cancer had improved quality of life and reduced level of depression after they received the educational palliative nursing intervention on posttest and follow up. Recommendation: palliative nursing interventions should be included routinely in the management of patients with advanced cancer besides conventional therapy.

People with advanced cancer often experience physical symptoms that depend on the specific type of cancer a person has and where it has spread. Purpose: To assess the effect of a palliative nursing interventions on symptoms intensity among patients with advanced cancer. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized. Setting: The study was carried out at the Oncology Department of Menoufia University Hospital at Menoufia governorate. Sample: A purposive sample of one hundred and seven adult patients with advanced cancer was selected. Instruments: Two instruments were used. Instrument one: structured interview questionnaire. Instrument two: Edmonton symptom assessment system. Results: All symptoms intensity related to cancer were reduced on posttest and follow up tests than pretest such as pain 3.81±3.72, 2.64±2.92 Vs 4.48±4.29. Conclusion: The study concluded that a palliative nursing intervention had a positive effect on reducing symptoms intensity among advanced cancer patients. Recommendation: A palliative nursing intervention should form an important component and should be included routinely in the management of patients with advanced cancer besides conventional therapy.

Cataract is the second cause of visual impairment and the first cause of blindness globally. So, inadequate nursing interventions lead to serious complications for patients with cataract surgery. Purpose of the study: was to examine the effect of a nursing intervention on nurses’ knowledge and practice regarding cataract surgery. Design: a quasi-experimental research design was utilized. Setting: the current study was carried out at Ophthalmology Department in Menoufia University Hospital and El Ramad Hospital in Shebin El-Kom. Sample: a purposive sample of 25 nurses was included. Instruments: two instruments were used for data collection: a self-administered questionnaire for nurses` knowledge and an observational checklist for nurse’s practice. Results: The mean age for nurses was 36.8±8.94, all nurses were married females with more than 3 years of clinical experiences. There was an improvement in total mean score of nurses’ knowledge from 23.60±2.87 pre intervention to 35.92±3.85 post intervention and after one week to 39.24±2.04 as a follow up intervention. Also, there was an improvement in the total nurse's practice score from 100.64±17.77 pre intervention to 244.56±23.65 post intervention and after one week to 250.96±20.86 as a follow up intervention. Conclusion: nurse's knowledge and practice improved after implementing nursing intervention. Recommendation: educational nursing interventions using the same educational methods should be carried out for nurses in ophthalmology settings to improve their knowledge and practices regarding cataract surgery.