An Educational Program Impact On Nurses’ Knowledge And Performance Concerning Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

An educational program for nurses about cardiopulmonary resuscitation is important and
obligatory in-hospital and out-hospital where a qualified nurse can open airways, resuscitate, massage a
heart and involve help to save a life by sustaining an ailing individual’s heart and brain for a brief
time. So the study aimed to evaluate an educational program's impact on nurses’ knowledge and
performance concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Design: A quasi-experimental research
design. Setting: The study was applied in El-Tadamon Hospital. Subjects: This study was carried out
on thirty-two nurses recruiting in an intensive care, emergency care, theater room, internal medicine, and
surgery departments of El-Tadamon Hospital at Portsaid city. Two tools were used for data collection;
the "Structured questionnaire sheet" which is consisted of twenty-one questions related to
socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge about sudden cardiac arrest, sudden pulmonary arrest,
and CPR. “Observation checklist” was concerned performance in cardiopulmonary resuscitation Results:
This study indicated that there are statistically significant (P < 0.001) improvements immediately after
program implementation and throughout follow-up concerning nurses’ knowledge and performance
about cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Moreover, it had been also found that statistically significant
(P<0.001) relation between nurses’ knowledge and performance, and there are no statistically significant
associations between the changes in the scores of either knowledge and performance and
socio-demographic characteristics. the program had succeeded in inducing statistically significant
improvements in nurses’ knowledge and performance about
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR). Conclusion: An educational program for nurses had a positive
impact on their knowledge and
performance concerning CPR. Recommendations: development and
implementation of educational
programs in all other port said hospitals.