ASSESSMENT AND PRACTICE REGARDING HIGH QUALITY CPR AMONGREGISTERED NURSES IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS IN RAWALPINDI

Abstract

Nurses are first witnesses to in-, hospital sudden cardiac arrest. Assessing clinicians' knowledge of evaluating potential cardiac arrest patients and identifying cardiac arrest, evaluating clinicians' knowledge of appropriate decisions and actions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and identifying which advanced life support courses had been completed and whether they were still valid were the goals of this study, This was a descriptive, cross sectional survey, The subjects were registered nurses who worked in a tertiary care hospital, Using systemic random sampling, Nurses from tertiary care hospital were invited to participate. Those who consented were included, until a sample of 249 was obtained, Total number of questions answered correctly in each category was counted and scored. In all categories, there was a highly significantly associated, and moderate and highly significantly correlated to each other in the same direction (p<0.001), The mean score was 21.6±6.96 for 33 questions. It was estimated as 65.63±7.84 out of 100 points. Total scores are converted into percentages and divided into pre-fixed grades as follows: >80 as excellent (22.8%), 60–80 good(55.2%), and <60 poor (22%) as shown in graph 1.1, Knowledge of CPR is good among the nursing students. However, skills of CPR have to be improved by current training programs at regular intervals. Their knowledge and practical approach have to be updated with the current guidelines in CPR.(Anatol J Cardiol 2017; 17: 140-5)