Nurses Knowledge Towards Post Abortion Care In Tier Three Health Facilities In Nairobi County-Kenya

Purpose: The purpose for this study was to determine nurses' knowledge towards post abortion care practices in tier three health facilities in Nairobi County-Kenya Methodology: This was a descriptive cross-sectional survey, which applied mixed research methods targeting population of 616 nurses working in Nairobi county tier three health facilities that provide post abortion care services. A sample size of 242 nurses derived from the target population. Data was collected through stratified and simple random sampling then cleaned and analyzed using statistical package for social sciences version 24. Descriptive statistics used to describe and summarize data while inferential statistics used to test hypothesis Findings: The study found that majority55 percent of the nurses had no pre-service training on post abortion care, majority had obtained on job-training and in-service training on post abortion care. The nurses knowledge was average at 51.21% with a very strong positive correlation at r = 0.918 and a composite mean of 3.31. There was sufficient evident to reject the null hypothesis and a significant association was declared when p-value was less than 0.05. The p-value for Ho1 and Ho2 were 0.00. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that nurses' pre-service curriculum should be reviewed to include post abortion care training, the government should consider continuous professional development on post abortion care as increase in knowledge to increase post abortion care practice.