Effect of leg exercise as nurses practice in the prevention of pulmonary embolism among patients with coronavirus disease

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of leg exercise as nurse practice toward the Prevention of Pulmonary Embolism among Patients with Corona-Virus Disease Methods: A descriptive study is conducted from 17th October 2021 to 2nd April 2022. The study is carried out at AL-Diwaiyah Teaching Hospital, Afak General Hospital, Shamiya General Hospital, and Hamza General Hospital in AL Diwaiyah City. A purposive sample (non-probability) consisting of (93) nurses were selected from nurses who work in the Coronavirus isolation center. Results: Findings indicate that nurses aged Less than 24 or equal to 34.4%, (54.8%) females, (35.5%), the secondary nursingschool graduated, (54.8%) have 1-5 years of experience and no participated in training sessions. Findings demonstrated that evaluating the effect of leg exercise as nurses practices was poorly related to pulmonary embolism andpreventive measures of pulmonary embolism. Overall Mean 1.62 respectively. There was a significant relationship between nurses' practices and their demographic data at a p-value <0.05. Nurses working in Coronavirus isolation center expressed poor effect leg exercise as nurse practice toward preventive measures of a pulmonary embolism due to low level of education and lack of training Recommendations: The study recommended the necessity of allocating special training courses for allnurses who work in the coronavirus isolation center to improve the practices of nurses toward preventive measure of pulmonary embolism, in addition to increasing the number of professional nurses graduating from the colleges of nursing the, enrolled in a coronavirus isolation center