Nurses` Knowledge toward Nutritional Status for Patients with End Stage Renal Failure at Al-Hussain Teaching Hospital in Al- Nasiriyah City

Abstract

Objectives of Study : To Assess of nurses knowledge toward nutritional status for patients with end stagerenal failure. to find a correlation among knowledge of nurses with socio-demographic attributes.Methodology: A descriptive study is carried out on non-probability sample of (100) nurses who work ondialysis units and dialysis wards at Al-Hussain Teaching hospital in Al-Nasiriyah city. The research wascarried out over an interval of September 15th 2020 to March 15th 2021. In order to achieve the study’s goals,an interview questionnaire is used as a research instrument. A pilot study is done to assess the reliability andvalidity of the questionnaire by 12 experts. A descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze thefindings.Results: The research findings are as follows: the bulk of the current study (64%) were female and theremaining were male. The highest percent of the study sample (29 percent) were within age group (25- 29)years old. In regard to the subject marital status, the majority of the sample were married, and they accountedfor (56 %) of the whole sample. Relative to their professional qualification, the greater number of nurseswere with Bachelor`s degree in nursing and they accounted for (47 %). Concerning years of experience, themajority of the sample (72%) having 3 - 5 years of experience in working field.