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Introduction: Now, the first programs for nurse managers is plans for promoting nurses’ capabilities. Continuing education is the common way for increasing knowledge, skills and nurses’ ability to performance.
Aim: This study was done for assessing investigating causes of non- impact continuing education on quality of intensive nursing care in the open heart surgery.
Method: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed in 2016 that (62) clinical nurses in the intensive nursing care in the open heart surgery in the Shahid Rajaii hospital were participated. Data were collected by authors-made questionnaire with 30 questions in 4 domains: personal and professional features of nurses, environmental features, learning process and organizational and managerial. In order to its validity and reliability was evaluated with content validity and internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha (0.8). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics with SPSS 16.
Results: (93.5%) of nurses pointed out to the high impact of the lack of motivation to learning. (84%) of them believed that high impact of the unavailability of the educational content in units. (95%) pointed to high impact of educational relationship to the clinical evaluation and competency of educators. As well as (98.5%) pointed to high impact in the organizational and managerial dimensions related to the control and lack of appropriate evaluation criteria.
Conclusion: For having effective nursing management and use of some effective motivational methods for nurses, participative them in decision making, supervision and control on nursing care in order to fair evaluation would be improve continuing education impact in the quality of intensive nursing care in open heart surgery.