Assessment of Confidence on Care of Patient with Delirium among Nurses

Abstract

Introduction In multispecialty hospitals, delirium is one of the psychiatric emergency conditions that frequently arise for medical causes. The safety and healing of the delirious patient will benefit from the medical team's prompt attention. When delirious patients are admitted to medical, intensive care, or emergency rooms, nurses are the most crucial experts to respond quickly and confidently. Therefore, it is imperative that the confidence of nurses in their ability to care for patients with delirium be assessed immediately. This study was aimed to assess the level of confidence on care of patient with delirium among nurses at selected hospital, Chennai.  Material & Methods This study was conducted by using the cross sectional, correlational research design among 50 nurses who were selected through purposive sampling technique in a selected hospital, Chennai, India. A four-point Likert scale was employed as the rating system to evaluate the degree of confidence. The self- administration method was used to collect data.  Results Most of the nurses had low level of confidence (70%) for caring of delirious patients and all the nurses had below average level of mean% with their confidence levels in both knowledge and skills.  Conclusion The majority of nurses require education and training to boost their confidence in their ability to care for patients with delirium in terms of both knowledge and practice. Nurses working in multispecialty hospitals will be fully confident in their ability to deliver high- quality nursing care after studies employing a variety of novel ways on nursing care for patients with delirium are implemented.