The Role of Emergency Nurses in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) of Cardiac Arrest Patients: A Literature Review

Abstract

Cardiac arrest can occur anywhere in the hospital area, whether it is in the emergency room, patients who are already in care, outpatients, the patient's family, visitors, or the community of the hospital at work. The literature of the review aims to determine the role of emergency nurses in the administration of pulmonary heart resuscitation in cardiac arrest patients. Literature review through several stages, namely making questions, identification, eligibility, selection of article inclusion, and screening. The Selection Process is listed in the framework of the review literature and obtained the results of article 8 articles. The data showed similar results related to the role of nurses in assisting cardiac arrest patients in hospitals. The results of the article in the review focused on the role of nurses in providing life support to patients with cardiac arrest, almost from all articles reviewed discussing the knowledge, experience, and skills of nurses in providing CPR. The role of nurses in the emergency room in providing life support to cardiac arrest patients is to improve the knowledge, experience, and skills in performing CPR. One way to improve the knowledge, experience, and skills of nurses in providing CPR to cardiac arrest patients is to participate in various training such as Basic Trauma Cardiac Life Support (BTCLS) or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ATCLS).