Nurses Performance Regarding Caring For Patients With Seizure

Abstract

Background: Seizure is a brief episode of signs or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activit[1]y in the brain. Aim: the present study aimed to assess nurses' performance regarding caring for patient with seizures. Design: descriptive exploratory design Setting: Neurological ICU and Emergency Unit at Makkah hospitals. Subject: a convenient sample of all available nurses (50) working in neurological ICU, emergency unit at Makkah hospitals. Tools: three tools were used nurses' self- administered knowledge questionnaire, nurses' observational checklist and likert scale to assess nurses’ attitude regarding patient with seizures. Result: the result of this study showed that, 84% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of knowledge, while 80.0% of them had positive attitude and 74% of them had unsatisfactory level of practice regarding care of patient with seizure. Also, there was fair positive correlation between total nurses’ knowledge and their total practice level while there was no statistical significance difference association between total nurses knowledge and their attitude toward seizure disease Conclusion the majority of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of knowledge and three quarters of them had unsatisfactory level of practice regarding care of patient with seizure. While the majority of them had positive attitude Also. Recommendations: in-service training program must be developed based on nurses' needs assessment regarding care of patients with seizure.