Knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by the nursing professional in patient monitoring units
Section: Healthcare Management
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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
Authors
1Juan 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.
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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
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
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