Assessment Of Nurses Knowledge Regarding Care Of Patient With Arrhythmia In Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit In Military Hospital , Sudan (2017)

Abstract

Abstract Cardiac arrhythmias are one of the most commonly seen manifestations of cardiac disease in critically ill patient. The nature of this study is descriptive , hospital base study .and the main aim of this study was to assess the nurses knowledge regarding care of patient with arrhythmia in emergency department and intensive care unit in military hospital . The sample size was 90 nurses all of them are work in emergency of military hospital , structured questionnaire was the method of data collection , simple random sampling , and data analysis using statistical package of social science . The main findings are seventy three of nurses are female and most of the subjects were having experience between one to five years ,this means most of the nurses work in emergency of military are a senior.the majority of the nurses under study they did not receivetraining in ICU postgraduate .the result revealed that less than half of subjects( 41%)were are weak knowledge about the mechanism of arrhythmia and minimum ( 3%) of nurses are good knowledge regarding mechanism of arrhythmia , and more than half of nurses (56%) are very good knowledge about arrhythmia mechanism ,and the majority of the subject(82%) are weak knowledge about main symptoms of tachycardia , and minimum(9%) of sample study are very good knowledge about main symptoms of tachycardia , and more than half (73%) of nurses are weak knowledge regarding main symptoms of bradycardia , and the one quarter (20%) of sample study are good knowledge about main symptoms of bradycardia , and minimum (7%) of nurses are very good knowledge about bradycardia symptoms , and the majority of subjects (80%) are weak knowledge regarding main symptoms of atrial fibrillation , and less than one quarter (16%) are good knowledge about main symptoms of atrial fibrillation , and minimum of sample study (4%) are very good knowledge about main symptoms of atrial fibrillation, and less than two third (63%) of nurses are weak knowledgeV regarding patients management in emergency , and minimum of subjects (12%) were are good knowledge about management of patients in emergency , and less than one third (26%) of nurses are very good knowledge regarding management of patients in emergencymost (72%) of sample study are weak knowledge about predisposing factor of arrhythmia , and minimum of nurses (8%) are very good knowledge regarding predisposing factor of arrhythmia ,and more than three quarters (78%) of sample study are weak knowledge about common causes of arrhythmia , and the minimum of nurses (8%) are very good knowledge about common causes of arrhythmia, and more than three quarters (77%) are weak knowledge about classification of arrhythmia , and less than one quarters of nurses (16%) are very good knowledge about classification of arrhythmia ,and two third (66%) of sample study are weak knowledge regarding type of arrhythmia ,and lessthan one quarter (17%) of nurses are very good knowledge about type of arrhythmia,more than three quarters (76%) of nurses are weak knowledge about common type of ventricular arrhythmia , and minimum of nurses (13%) are very good knowledge regarding common type of ventricular arrhythmia , and minimum of nurses (11%) are very good knowledge about common types of ventricular arrhythmia , and less than three quarters (71%) of nurses are weak knowledge about effective management of atrial fibrillation , and less than one quarter (19%) of sample study are good knowledge about effective management of atrial fibrillation , and minimum of nurses are very good knowledge regarding effective management of atrial fibrillation , more than half (60%) of subjects are weak knowledge about effective management of a systole patient , and one quarter (20%) of study sample are good knowledge about effective management of a systole patient , and one quarter (20%) of nurses are very good knowledge about effective management of a systole patientthe majority of sample study (81%) are weak knowledge about treatment of tachycardia , and less than one fifth (14%) of nurses are good knowledge about treatment of tachycardia , and minimum (4%) of nurses are very good knowledge regarding treatment of patient with tachycardia .VI more than half(53%) of subjects are weak knowledge about useful method of preventions from arrhythmia , and more than one fifth (21%) of nurses are good knowledge about useful method of prevention from arrhythmia , and more than one quarter (27%) of nurses are very good knowledge about method of arrhythmia prevention. Less than two third (65%) of nurses are weak knowledge regarding nursing management of arrhythmia in emergency department , and less than one fifth (18%) of nurses are good knowledge about nursing management of arrhythmia in emergency , and less than one fifth (17%) of nurses are very good knowledge about nursing management of arrhythmia in emergency department . more than one fifth of nurses (23%) are weak knowledge about common complication of arrhythmia , and more than three quarters (77%) of nurses are very good knowledge regarding the common complications of arrhythmia ,The finding results suggest that is inadequate knowledge about care of patient with arrhythmia