Knowledge, Attitude, And Practice of Emergency Nurses in Palestinian Governmental Hospitals About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Covid 19 Patients رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This study was aimed to assess the emergency nurse’s knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) toward CPR for Covid_19patient in Palestinian West Bank governmental hospital; it discussed the approach of dealing with CPR cases according to AHA new Covid_19CPR guidelines. Method: The study includes all nurses who work in emergency departments in all Palestinian West Bank governmental hospitals, they were 230 nurses. A Quantitative cross-sectional descriptive study was used to evaluate the nurses KAP throughout self-administered questioner in time period of 1st march to the 15th may.2021. In order to analyze the response of study participants throughout descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation S.D). Results: There were a 42% of Palestinian governmental emergency nurses had a moderate level of knowledge toward CPR for Covid_19 patients, for the attitude dimension, there were a 48,1% of nursing had a neutral attitude toward CPR for the Covid_19 patients, and 56% of study participants had a good level of practice toward CPR for Covid_19clients. Conclusion: There was a significant relation between gander, employment status and previously trained for CPR with the perception of practice with a p value <0.05. Recommendation: The study enhanced the continuing education committee and empower their roles in all Palestinian hospital, also follow some strict policies, measures for CPR to improve nursing and staff team commitment of implementing AHA protocols and finally, establishing a protocol all nurses who will be accepted to work in emergency department must have at least basic life support(BLS).