Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Knowledge and Skills of Newly Graduated Nurses in Selected College of Nursing, AP, India
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 7
Abstract
The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that healthcare providers and lay people should learn to perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for improving survival among sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) victims. Consequently, people who are professionally trained to provide life-saving measures should have the basic knowledge, skills, and confidence to do so. To assess the knowledge & skill scores of CPR technique among nursing graduates before and after intervention. to find out the association between knowledge & practice scores with selected demographic variables. The design selected for the present study was quasi-experimental design and approach in which one group pre and post design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 newly graduated nurses as a subject study. Comparison of overall mean, SD and mean percentage of pre and post test knowledge scores shows that over all pre test mean score was 18.6+_4.14 which is 41.33%whereas in post test the mean score was 35.8+- 3.5 which is 79.5% revealing the difference of 38.17% shows the effectiveness of STP. Study reports revealed that Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation knowledge among nurses were important. There was no significant association between the level of knowledge and their selected demographic variables like age, gender, year of graduation, unit assigned. Mostly all the participants had less than two years of experience and very minimal exposure to handle sudden cardiac arrest independently. The study concluded that the structured teaching was found really useful to them, which will help them to take prompt decisions, perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and save many lives and help them decide and perform independently.
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N. Christy Suthasini
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