The nurse in front of cardiorespiratory arrest in the pre-hospital environment: domain over the recommendations of the American heart association
The aim of the study was to enunciate the knowledge of nurses who work in pre-hospital care in the actions taken in the face of CPA. It is a field research with a quantitative approach of exploratory descriptive character. A pre-Hospital Urgency and Emergency company in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro was sought as a setting. Twenty nurses with specific contracts who received periodic training in ACLS and 20 nurses who work in the operation where they do not have training in ACLS were interviewed.