Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Καρδιοαναπνευστική ΑναζωογόνησηLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Lekas Nikolaos-Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
Ιακωβίδου Νικολέττα, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Χαλκιάς Αθανάσιος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Ξάνθος Θεόδωρος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου
Original Title:
Διερεύνηση της διατήρησης γνώσεων Βασικής Καρδιοαναπνευστικής Αναζωογόνησης από νοσηλευτικό προσωπικό στρατιωτικού Νοσοκομείου μετά το πέρα αντίστοιχου σεμιναρίου
Translated title:
Investigation of Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation knowledge maintenance for military nurses after the end of a corresponding seminar
Summary:
Background
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) plays a role of great importance in patients with cardiac arrest. Nowadays, knowledge of CPR is widely available, and on the nursing and medical staff is mandatory. In the 251 Air Force General Hospital (251 AFGH), nurses take necessarily a Basic Life Support course offered by fellow nurses before they get employed, so they can respond immediately in any case of cardiac arrest.
Aim
This study aims at investigating how well military nurses maintained their Basic CPR knowledge after their last BLS course. The result will prove how effective is the hospital's policy on the time distance between two BLS refresher courses.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was undertaken in the 251 AFGH in order to assess the Basic CPR knowledge of the nursing staff. The participants in the study were mostly nurses and assistant nurses who filled in a questionnaire given to them.
Results
In the study, 200 participants were enrolled; 137 females and 63 males; 73 assistant nurses; 85 registered nurses; 2 Technical Institution (T.I.) Graduates and 40 MSC nurses. Only 21 of 200 nurses and assistant nurses (10,5%) proved to completely know the CPR algorithm sequence. Out of them, 17 were female and 4 were male with insignificant statistical difference (p=0.225). We tried to correlate age and years of service with the maintenance of CPR knowledge but there were no statistically significant differences (p=0.676 and p=0.947 respectively). The professional status was another measured factor, with 12 participants out the 21 who know the algorithm sequence, to be registered nurses. The majority of those nurses who know the algorithm was in the Intensive Care Unit (29,2%).
In the most important table of this survey (Table 6) we get that there is no statistically significant difference in relation to the time from the last training for CPR in correlation to the knowledge of the algorithm, (p = 0.087). However, we could say that those who have been trained over the last 12 months are more likely to know the algorithm than others, and those who didn’t remember when their last training was, did not know the algorithm.
Conclusions and Recommendations
The CPR maintained knowledge of nurses and assistant nurses in the 251 AFGH seems unsatisfactory. The tendency of the last-year trained participants to more likely know the algorithm seems a fitting motive to decrease the time distance between two BLS refresher courses. We should also take into account other demographic characteristics like age, professional status and nursing department of the nursing staff that we want to keep effective rescuers and cardiac arrest quick responders.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Nurses, Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Cardiac arrest, Greece
