Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading killer, accounting for 16.7 million or 30% of total global death. India will carry 60% of the world’s heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of the global population. Cardiothoracic surgery is one of the most challenging and demanding areas among all the surgeries. Nurses must incorporate scientific knowledge and technical advances into their practice to care for the post operative cardiac surgery patients. Cardiovascular Nurses play a key role in the evaluation of cardiovascular status, monitoring the Hemodynamic functions and Disease Management.
Objectives
1. To assess the knowledge regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patient among staff nurses in selected hospitals of Guwahati, Assam.
2. To assess the practice regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patient among staff nurses in selected hospitals of Guwahati, Assam.
3. To find out the association between knowledge and practice of staff nurses with the selected demographic variables
4. To correlate the knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patient.
Methods and Materıals: A descriptive research design was used to accomplish the objectives. Study was undertaken on 38 staff nurses working in CTVS ICU in selected hospitals of Guwahati, Assam by using non probability purposive sampling technique. Participants were selected on the basis of inclusion criteria. Structured knowledge questionnaire, inventory and observation checklist were used to assess the knowledge and practice.
Results: In knowledge, majority 26 (68%) of the respondents had moderately adequate knowledge regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patients. In practice, majority 22 (58%) of the samples had moderately adequate practice regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patient. The mean knowledge and practice score were 20.75 and 23.28 respectively. The results shows that there was no significant association between knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patients with any of the demographic variables. And the co-relationship between knowledge and practice was 0.99 which was positive. Thus, this study give the area to improve the knowledge and practice regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patients among staff nurses.
Conclusıon: From this study it was concluded that majority of the staff nurses had moderately adequate knowledge and practice level, which means knowledge and practice was required for staff nurses regarding post operative care of cardiac surgery patients.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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