Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 45, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 594-608 PDF (1.31 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Osama Kamel Mayez1; Ola Abd El Atty2; Yosreah Mohamed Mohamed3 | ||
| 1B.Sc. Nursing-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 2Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing,-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 3Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Several medical procedures are performed daily in the intensive care unit (ICU). It is evident that complications still occur frequently and are potentially life- threatening. The most common support and monitoring devices used in the ICU include, intravenous catheter, nasogastric tube, endotracheal tube, central venous catheter, hemodialysis double-lumen catheter and chest tube. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses performance regarding invasive procedures Design A descriptive explorative design was utilized for the conduction of this study. Setting The study was carried out at intensive care units at El-Matrya teaching hospital. Study subject: A convenience sample of all available nurses(30)nurses working at the previous mentioned setting Tools: I – nurses’ self – administrated questionnaire form which consisted of nurse’s demographic characteristics' and nurses’ knowledge II nurses' practice observational checklist regarding invasive procedures. Results: revealed that 63.3% of the studied nurse's had satisfactory total level of knowledge, while 53.3 %had satisfactory level of practice regarding invasive procedures. Conclusion: around two third of the studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and around half of studied nurses had satisfactory practice with invasive procedures. Recommendations:: improved nurses theoretical knowledge, clinical practice and continuous evaluation of nurses knowledge and practice regarding invasive procedures at intensive care unit | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Intensive Care Unit; Invasive procedures; Nurses’ performance | ||
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