Knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by the nursing professional in patient monitoring units Section: Healthcare Management How to quote Muñoz Camargo JC et al. Conocimientos sobre RCP del profesional enfermero en unidades sin monitorización de pacientes. Metas de Enferm feb 2011; 14(1): 10-15 Authors1Juan Carlos Muñoz Camargo, 2Manuel Rodríguez-Barbero Velázquez, 3Mercedes Muñoz Martínez, 3Ángel Arévalo Ramírez, 3Juan Francisco Ruiz López Position 1Enfermero/a de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos. Hospital General de Ciudad Real.2Enfermero/a de la Gerencia de Atención Primaria. Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM). 3Enfermera/o. Hospital General de Ciudad Real. Contact address Juan Carlos Muñoz Camargo. Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos. Hospital General de Ciudad Real. Avenida de Tomelloso, s/n. 13005 Ciudad Real. Contact email: Papias@terra.es Abstract Objectives: to determine the degree of knowledge on cardiopulmonary resuscitation of nursing professionals in patient monitoring units at the Ciudad Real General Hospital, as well as the relationship between the degree of knowledge and the age and time of professional experience.Material and methods: cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in medical and surgical units at the Ciudad Real General Hospital on a population comprised of 94 nurses. A self-elaborated questionnaire was used containing the international recommendations on CPR and which varied in score between 0 and 10 (maximum level of knowledge). Descriptive statistics indexes and statistical inference were calculated a (test de X2) to compare the association hypothesis between age and time of professional experience and the level of knowledge.Results: a response rate of 85,1% was obtained. 85% were women. The mean for correct answers was 3,4. No significant differences were found with regard to knowledge among the different hospital department studied (p = 0,79), neither regarding age (p = 0,32), or the time of professional experience (p = 0,32).Conclusions: nursing professionals do not have a sufficient knowledge of the latest CPR recommendations derived from the 2005 European Resuscitation Council. Health centres should provide more effective medical care to of cardiac arrest victims by ensuring that their staff received regular and up-to-date training via the implantation of hospital CPR programmes aimed at achieving the correct administration of the international recommendations on the subject.Key words: monitoring; cardiorespiratory arrest; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; hospitalisation; investigation; descriptive. Keywords: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; cardiorespiratory arrest; CPR; descriptive; hospitalisation; investigationmonitoring Versión en Español Título: Conocimientos sobre resucitación cardiopulmonar del profesional enfermero en unidades sin monitorización de pacientes