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Abstract
This thesis presents development of nursing standard of care for pulmonary TB patients in chest outpatient clinics. Tuberculosis (TB) is considered the second worldwide fatal disease. It is among the top ten causes of death in the world. In Egypt, TB is the third most important public health problem. The aim of the present study is to develop nursing standard of care for pulmonary TB patients in chest outpatients’ clinics. This study was carried out at the chest out-patient clinics in Mansoura District, Dakahlia Governorate from March 2009 to January 2010. The subjects of the study included all nurses (70) who were working in the different chest out-patient clinics during the study, as well as 187 pulmonary TB patients and 14 academic nurses and medical experts for testing the validity of the developed standard. Four tools were developed by the researcher for data collection. Tool one was a questionnaire sheet developed to assess the basic knowledge of the nurses involved in the provision of direct care of the patients. Tool two is an observation checklist used to determine the performance of nurses providing care to pulmonary TB patients. Tool three a Structured Patients’ Interview sheet to assess the patients socio-demographic data, knowledge and believes about TB while the fourth tool referred to the Pulmonary TB nursing standards an opinionaire sheet.