Evaluation of nursing knowledge about the emergency car
International Journal of Development Research
Evaluation of nursing knowledge about the emergency car
Received 26th April, 2018; Received in revised form 19th May, 2018; Accepted 21st June, 2018; Published online 30th July, 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 objective was to evaluate nurses knowledge about the correct use of the emergency car. It is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study. The target audience of the research were nurses working in the emergency unit of a hospital in the municipality of Fortaleza-Ceará. For the data collection, a structured form was used, containing variables that indicated several factors that tested nurses' knowledge. Twenty nurses participated in the study, of which 95% were female and only 5% were male. 60% of the nurses reported never having attended courses, classes or lectures on the emergency car, but 100% reported feeling the need to deepen their knowledge about the subject. The relevance of this study consisted in the fact that the emergency car is a crucial and indispensable element for the reversal of cardiorespiratory arrest, but there are still many shortcomings about its organization, availability of its items and ease of access. The main deficiencies were identified in order to sensitize health professionals, managers and educational institutions to the importance of updating the nurses on the use of the emergency car.
