INVESTIGATION OF NURSE’S KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE WORKING IN CCU WARDS OF TALEGHANI HOSPITAL OF URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES REGARDING ADULT CPR, 1383

Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the most important medical emergencies. Nowadays the importance of resuscitation is clear. Researches show that 20 to 30% of these patients are rescued by CPR. Restoring to life chance increases 2 to 4 times if resuscitation operations begin during 4 minutes, and since nurses are among the first rescuers, this study is carried out in order to investigate CCU nurses,�knowledge and revenue regarding adult CPR.

Methods & Materials: This descriptive analytical study was carried out in order to determin CCU Nurses,�knowledge and revenue about adult CPR. The present study is done on all CCU nurses of Taleghani hospital as the only CCU Center of Urmia University of Medical Sciences.

Results: Findings of the study indicated that the most percentage of study samples were: %54.8 in 36-45 yrs age group %74.2 female 77.4 married %90.3 licentiated nurse and %19.4 had more than 10 yrs career antecedents, respectively. Also %74 had done end tracheal in tubation, %96.8 had participated in CPR operations, %9.7 were very skillful in CPR, and %16.1 were expert in exploiting ECT in CPR.

Conclusion : Paying attention to the obtained results %74.2 of the samples had inserted end tracheal tube, only %6.5 of them were very skillful in this field. The results of this study showed that anthorities must pay more attention to education service and retouching courses of nurses.