Evaluation of knowledge of nurses regarding complications related to mechanical ventilation
International Journal of Development Research
Evaluation of knowledge of nurses regarding complications related to mechanical ventilation
Received 18th February, 2018; Received in revised form 21st March, 2018; Accepted 17th April, 2018; Published online 31st May, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Yara de Oliveira Sampaio et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of this study was to evaluate nurses' knowledge about complications related to mechanical ventilation. It is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative approach, elaborated from the data collection structured by a questionnaire with nurses of a tertiary-level hospital in the city of Fortaleza / Ce, from February to July 2017. The results were submitted to simple regressive statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0. Of the nurses interviewed, 86.36% reported not having enough information to care for a patient under mechanical ventilation during graduation, and 77.52% of the respondents claimed that they would not know the complications related to mechanical ventilation. It is concluded that nurses need to be trained and trained about ventilation-related complications, so that these professionals effectively participate in the construction of their evidence-based practice process, propagating a safe and holistic care to the patient.
