Nurses Knowledge and Performance Regarding Immediate Care Post Open Heart Surgery In Als h aab and Ahmed Gasim Teaching Hospitals (May – December 2014 )

Abstract

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Abstract

B

ack ground:

Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading killer, accounting for 16.7

million or 29.2% of total global death.

Care of clients after cardiac surgery aim to

reduces the operative risk and promo

tes post operative recovery and to

provide

comprehensive care to the patients to recover fast

and minimize

hospitalization.

Objectives:

The overal

l objec

tives was to evaluate nurses

knowledge and

p

erformance

regarding immediate care

post

open heart surgery

.

Method

s

:

descriptive cross

-

sectional ho

spital

-

base

d

study conducted at Alshaab and

Ahmed G

asim teaching hospitals ,

data was collected by Standardized

administer

ed

q

uestionnaire to evaluate nurses

knowledge and

performance

regarding immediate

care post open heart surgery and Data was analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical

package for social sciences) computer program

version 20

.

R

esult

s

:

The majority of study sample in this study were female

(76.0%),their

educational

Qualification were

BSc nursing

(

64.0%) and their years of

experience

of

respondents 1

-

3 years

(

56.0%), where (26.0%) above 3 years. and

majority of those

nurses did not

partic

ipate in any special training programme on post -operative

management of open heart surgery

94.0%.

The

study sample

in this study

their level of knowledge found to be

ranging from fair

to poor regarding care of patients in immediate period

post

cardiac su

rgery

.Majority

of those nurses (78.5%) have good practice regarding care of such patients.

There is

gap

between years of experience and educational qualification of res

p

ondents and

their

knowledge

and practice regarding immediate care

post

open heart surgery.

C

onclusion

:

the study illustrated that

majority of respondents'

knowledge ranging

from fair to poor regarding care o

f patients in immediate period post

cardiac surgery.

most of them have good practice regarding care of such patients

.