Assessment of knowledge, practice and associated factors towards basic life support among nurses working in ambulance of pre-hospital setting of fire and emergency response and rescue authority of Addis Abeba,Ethiopia, 2019.
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2019-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Back ground: Pre-hospital emergency care is the emergency care delivered to a patient before
transfer to a hospital or proper healthcare facility. Basic Life Support is refers to the care
healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to patients who are experiencing
respiratory and cardiac arrest or airway obstruction.
Objective: To assess knowledge and practice towards basic life support and its’ associated
factors among nurses practicing in ambulance at fire and emergency prevention and rescue
authority of pre hospital care setting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from March to April 20, 2019.
Methods: Institutional based a cross sectional survey with complete enumeration of all
respondents was conducted on participants from fire and emergency prevention and rescue
authority during the study period from March to April 20, 2019. Self-administered questioners
were used to collect data from respondents and then it was presented by descriptive data
presentation methods for descriptive variable. Binary and multiple logistic Regression analysis
we used to show effect of independent variable on dependent variable. Data quality was
controlled by pre-testing the tools and providing training the data collectors
Result: About 129 respondents were studied in this study with the response rate of 95%. Of
them more than half 76(58.9%) were female.
According to this study the overall BLS knowledge and
practice skills were found inadequate.
More than half of the participants 68 (52.7%) and 73(56.6%)
had poor BLS knowledge and practice level respectively. Educational status, previous clinical
exposures and involvement in resuscitation were showed significant association with BLS
knowledge and practice on both binary and multiple logistic regressions.
Conclusion and recommendation: since the result of this study revealed that overall BLS knowledge
and practice skills were found inadequate
which were not enough to provide these crucial lifesaving
procedures through sound BLS. In-service education and repetitive hand on practice about basic
life support maneuvers for nurses must be considered to improve their basic life support
knowledge and practice.
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Basic life support, ambulance nurses, knowledge, and practice