Kamel Mayez, O., Abd El Atty, O., Mohamed Mohamed, Y. (2022). Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit. test, 13(2), 594-608. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980
Osama Kamel Mayez; Ola Abd El Atty; Yosreah Mohamed Mohamed. "Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit". test, 13, 2, 2022, 594-608. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980
Kamel Mayez, O., Abd El Atty, O., Mohamed Mohamed, Y. (2022). 'Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit', test, 13(2), pp. 594-608. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980
Kamel Mayez, O., Abd El Atty, O., Mohamed Mohamed, Y. Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit. test, 2022; 13(2): 594-608. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980

Nurses Performance Regarding Invasive Procedures in Intensive Care Unit

Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Article 44, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 594-608    PDF (1.31 M)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.231980
Authors
Osama Kamel Mayez1; Ola Abd El Atty2; Yosreah Mohamed Mohamed3
1B.Sc. Nursing-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.
2Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing,-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.
3Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing-Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt.
Abstract
Background: Several medical procedures are performed daily in the intensive care
unit (ICU). It is evident that complications still occur frequently and are potentially life-
threatening. The most common support and monitoring devices used in the ICU include,
intravenous catheter, nasogastric tube, endotracheal tube, central venous catheter,
hemodialysis double-lumen catheter and chest tube. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses
performance regarding invasive procedures Design A descriptive explorative design was
utilized for the conduction of this study. Setting The study was carried out at intensive care
units at El-Matrya teaching hospital. Study subject: A convenience sample of all available
nurses(30)nurses working at the previous mentioned setting Tools: I – nurses’ self –
administrated questionnaire form which consisted of nurse’s demographic characteristics'
and nurses’ knowledge II nurses' practice observational checklist regarding invasive
procedures. Results: revealed that 63.3% of the studied nurse's had satisfactory total level of
knowledge, while 53.3 %had satisfactory level of practice regarding invasive procedures.
Conclusion: around two third of the studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and around
half of studied nurses had satisfactory practice with invasive procedures.
Recommendations:: improved nurses theoretical knowledge, clinical practice and
continuous evaluation of nurses knowledge and practice regarding invasive procedures at
intensive care unit
Keywords
Intensive Care Unit; Invasive procedures; Nurses’ performance
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