Abstract
Background: Hypovolemic shock is a severe life threatening emergency affecting all organ systems. Nurses play a vital role in caring of patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shocked. Aim: Assess nurses 'knowledge and practice regarding patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shock. Subjects and Method: A descriptive research design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in intensive care unit in Damietta general hospital and port-said governmental hospitals Subjects: A convenient sample of 50 nurses participated in the study Tools: data was collected using two tools, Nurses' Knowledge questionnaire and observational check list for nurses' practice. Results: The result of study indicated that 54% of studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge while 66% had satisfactory practice Conclusion: More than half of the studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and practice regarding patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shocked. Recommendations: There are obvious needs for conducting in-service educational and training programs to improve nurses' knowledge and practice regarding patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shock.
Highlights
The exact of hypovolemic shock is not known because it is a response rather than disease it is common complication among hospitalized patient in emergency department and after surgery or invasive procedure (Semerci et al, 2018)., Every years around 5.8 million people die worldwide due to events related trauma leading to death and disability about 40 percent of trauma related death are due to hemorrhage (Jacob & Kumar,2014).Hypovolemic shock is the most common type of shock which result from the loss of circulating blood volume this may result depletion of body fluid. (Siddal, Khatri & Radhakrishnan,2017)
The conditions are leading to hypovolemic shock include burns, trauma, hemorrhage and surgery burns lead to loss of plasma but hemorrhage and trauma leading to blood loss internally or externally ( Shin et al ., 2015)
AIM OF THE STUDY: This study aims to assess nurses' knowledge and practice regarding patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shock
Summary
The exact of hypovolemic shock is not known because it is a response rather than disease it is common complication among hospitalized patient in emergency department and after surgery or invasive procedure (Semerci et al, 2018)., Every years around 5.8 million people die worldwide due to events related trauma leading to death and disability about 40 percent of trauma related death are due to hemorrhage (Jacob & Kumar,2014). The conditions are leading to hypovolemic shock include burns , trauma , hemorrhage and surgery burns lead to loss of plasma but hemorrhage and trauma leading to blood loss internally or externally ( Shin et al ., 2015). Nurses play a vital role in caring of patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shocked. Aim: Assess nurses 'knowledge and practice regarding patients with post traumatic hypovolemic shock. Results: The result of study indicated that 54% of studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge while
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