Nurses' level of Competence and Reported Practices Among Pediatric and Adult Ventilated Patients with COVID 19.

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1 criitical care &emergency department faculty of nursing Assuit University

2 faculty of nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

3 Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing , Faculty of Nursing ,Assiut University

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Critically care nurses must be competent in care of patients with COVID19 on mechanical ventilation which meets the specialized needs of the patient. Aim: To investigate nurses' level of competence and reported practices among ventilated adult and pediatric patients with COVID 19. Research Design: A descriptive research design was conducted in this study.   Setting: The study was conducted in four intensive care units include general, trauma, critical care and pediatric intensive care unit. Subjects: Nurses who have a bachelor’s degree of nursing sciences as a bedside nurse and dealing with patients connected to mechanical ventilation with COVID 19. Tools of data collection: Tool I: clinical scenario assessment tool. Tool two: nurses' reported practices (universal precautions) questionnaire. Results: The majority of nurses were incompetent in all breath types and lung pathological changes (81.7%, 95%, 81.7% 95.0%) respectively, and majority of them had inappropriate reported practice according to policy of sharp equipment and environmental precaution Conclusion: It was found that more than half of studied nurses were incompetent and had inappropriate reported practice in dealing with ventilated patients with covid19. Recommendation: Nurses' level of competence and practices among ventilated patients should be assessed at regular time     

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Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal
Volume 8, Issue 23 - Serial Number 2
supplement
December 2020
Pages 124-133

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