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- Title
Self-Assessed Capabilities, Attitudes, and Stress among Pediatric Nurses in Relation to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
- Authors
Hendy, Abdelaziz; Hassani, Rym; Abouelela, Madeha Ali; Alruwaili, Abeer Nuwayfi; Fattah, Hadya Abboud Abdel; Atia, Gehan Abd elfattah; Reshia, Fadia Ahmed Abdelkader
- Abstract
Background: In emergency medicine, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the most stressful scenarios for nurses who conduct both basic and advanced resuscitation methods. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses' self-assessed capabilities, attitudes, and stress related to CPR. Methods: This cross-sectional, observational study was carried out on 748 pediatric nurses at six governmental hospitals. A self–assessed ability questionnaire and a structured stress and attitude questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: For self-assessed abilities, 45.5% of the nurses had moderate scores. Concerning stress, 48.3% had moderate scores and 63.1% negative attitudes. Also, attitude and self-assessed abilities had a high-frequency negative effect on stress scores (P< 0.05). Conclusion: Attitude scores increased and stress scores decreased significantly with postgraduate educational level, attendance at training courses on pediatric basic life support and automated external defibrillator use, being exposed to > 10 cardiac arrest cases in the previous year, and having an advanced life-support license (P< 0.05). Positive attitudes and improving self-assessed abilities decreased the nurses' stress levels related to CPR.
- Subjects
PEDIATRIC nurses; PEDIATRIC nursing; CARDIOPULMONARY resuscitation; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CARDIAC arrest; EMERGENCY medicine
- Publication
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023, Vol 16, p603
- ISSN
1178-2390
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2147/JMDH.S401939