Assessment of nurses’ knowledge about management of psychiatric patients in emergency unit

Abstract

The Emergency Department is a fast-paced setting where nurses must deal with crucial situations such as psychologically disturbed patients. Nurses in emergency rooms are frequently presented with patients who exhibit physical symptoms associated with psychiatric disorder, which might impair nurses' ability to make an accurate diagnosis and manage their patients. A descriptive analytic design was conducted on measurement of the Nurses' Knowledge regarding management of psychiatric disorders at emergency units in Babylon governorate for the period of (December 12th, 2021 to march 14th, 2022). The study instrument was designed to meet the objectives of the current study, which was consisting of two parts: the first part includes the demographical data for nurses; the second part includes the knowledge management Scale 32 items (KMS). The results showed that nurses are young with age (27.89±6.291 year) in which 75.8% of them are seen with age group of 20-29 year. The study shows nurses have a good level of knowledge for items related to knowledge about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at emergency units as seen among 89.4%. The study concluded that most nurses have a good level of knowledge ' about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at emergency units.