Factors Related to Nurse’s Response Time in Management of Upper GI Bleeding among Chronic Liver Disease Patients

Abstract

Background: In emergency care, the most important thing to note is the speed of nurses in responding or acting on the first patient who enters the emergency room. This speed is often referred to as response time. Nurse response time is always a measure of the service quality of a hospital or health center. Response times depend on the speed available as well as the quality of assistance to save lives and prevent infirmity. Objectives: Patients visiting to the hospital should be treated promptly and that leads to improvement in the quality of services and patient safety. The study aimed to determine the factors related to the response time of nurses in management of upper GI bleeding among chronic liver disease patients at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.Methods: Carrying out the research is from February to March 2022. Analytical survey design with a cross- sectional approach. The research subjects were 20 nurses. measuring tools, namely questionnaires. analysis used bivariate analysis used the Chi-Square Test.Results: This shows that there is a relationship between education and response time with a value of p-value =.008, knowledge and response time with a value of p-value = .003.Conclusion: The level of knowledge and clinical experience determines Nurses to make prompt decision and ability to provide assessment and nursing actions. As the Nurses getting higher education levels and experience also increasing, on average they remain engaged in their work for longer time, so they are more productive and nurses have attended more training to improve their skills.