Nurses' level of Competence and Reported Practices Among Pediatric and Adult Ventilated Patients with COVID 19. | ||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 12, Volume 8, Issue 23, December 2020, Pages 124-133 PDF (1.21 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2021.44568.1050 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mogedda Mohamed Mehany1; Eman Sayed Ahmed* 2; Amira Hassan Abdalfatah3 | ||
| 1criitical care &emergency department faculty of nursing Assuit University | ||
| 2faculty of nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 3Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing , Faculty of Nursing ,Assiut University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Critically care nurses must be competent in care of patients with COVID19 on mechanical ventilation which meets the specialized needs of the patient. Aim: To investigate nurses' level of competence and reported practices among ventilated adult and pediatric patients with COVID 19. Research Design: A descriptive research design was conducted in this study. Setting: The study was conducted in four intensive care units include general, trauma, critical care and pediatric intensive care unit. Subjects: Nurses who have a bachelor’s degree of nursing sciences as a bedside nurse and dealing with patients connected to mechanical ventilation with COVID 19. Tools of data collection: Tool I: clinical scenario assessment tool. Tool two: nurses' reported practices (universal precautions) questionnaire. Results: The majority of nurses were incompetent in all breath types and lung pathological changes (81.7%, 95%, 81.7% 95.0%) respectively, and majority of them had inappropriate reported practice according to policy of sharp equipment and environmental precaution Conclusion: It was found that more than half of studied nurses were incompetent and had inappropriate reported practice in dealing with ventilated patients with covid19. Recommendation: Nurses' level of competence and practices among ventilated patients should be assessed at regular time | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: Adult and Pediatric Patients; Covid-19; Level of Competence; Mechanical Ventilation & Reported Practices | ||
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