Assessment of Nurse’s Competences during Emergency Management of patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction at critical care units and emergency department at Public Teaching Hospitals in Khartoum State (2013

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and skill of the nurses whom

work at CCU and emergency department (EM) in 2012. The standardized administered

questionnaire was used for data collection. The level of knowledge of 139 nurses working at

the critical care units and emergency department at Public Teaching Hospitals in Khartoum

State was assessed. The data was processed using the statistical package software (SPSS);

version 19. For the analysis, Chi-Square test was used, P-value <0.05 was considered

statistically significant.

Results showed that 32% of study population had very poor level of

knowledge, while 44% had poor level whereas 12% had a good level. 42% had good

knowledge about acute coronary syndrome’s components while 10% were at poor

level and 16.5% were at very poor level. In the same manner half of them their

knowledge about initial management of acute myocardium infarction was poor level,

while (21%) had good knowledge..

Also the study population knowledge’s about

arrhythmias that occur at initial phase was very poor (39.6%), poor (27.3%) and

there was no one at a good level, Lastly their knowledge about the factors which

lead to delay of emergency management of AMI was (40.3%) at poor level, (27.3%)

at very poor while only (5.8%) at good level.