Nurses Performance Regarding Caring for Patients with Seizure

Document Type : Original Article

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1 B.S.C-Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University

2 Medical-Surgical Nursing-Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University

3 Critical Care Nursing Department-Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University

Abstract

Background: Seizure is a brief episode of signs or
symptoms due to abnormal excessive or
synchronous neuronal activity 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 Elsheikh Zayed specialized hospital, 2nd floor, 6th
October. Subject: a convenient sample of all available nurses (50) working in neurological ICU,
emergency unit at ELsheikh Zayed specialized hospital. 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.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 13, Issue 1
March 2022
Pages 927-939

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