Nursing Awareness towards preparedness of the emergency trolley in governmental hospitals at North west bank.

Supervisor

Mr.Mohamed abo rajab

Abstract

Background

Nurses are usually first witnesses to in-hospital sudden emergancy siutation. Training of nurses has an impact on the efficiency and outcome of emergancy trolleys, and thus, assessment of emergancy trolleys knowledge among nurses is very important.

Aim

The purpose of the study is to assess and evaluate the awareness of the emergency trolley among nursing staff in government hospital in north west bank.

Methodology

This study will use the quantitative method, self-administrative questionnaire was used to collect the data, the sample size in this research was distributed among 94 nursing staff using convenient technique. This study was conducted in governmental hospitals in the northern West Bank.

Result and conclusion

The study showed that 90% of nurses are aware of using or the content in the emergency trolley, while 10 % of nurses are not aware of using or the content of emergency trolley, the emergency trolley is usually available at 92%, while 8% of the nurses said that the emergency trolley is not available at times. Nurses are usually first witnesses to in-hospital sudden for any emergency situation. The results of the study show that there is a high awareness of nursing towards the emergency trolley in the departments of government hospitals in the northern West Bank.

Key Words

emergency trolley, nursing awareness, Resuscitation, Emergency department.