Assessment of Nurses' Practices Concerning Blood Pressure Measurements

Abstract

Background and Aim-Blood Pressure Measurement (BPM) is considered a generic skill required in nursing, by a range of health professionals, for effective health assessment. The study aimed to assess nurses' techniques regarding correct way of measurement of blood pressure. Methods and Materials-A cross-sectional study was conducted on (241) nurses obtained accidently from different wards or units in three teaching hospitals in Mosul City/Iraq during a period "20 th of novmber 2017 to 20 th of January / 2018". The instruments depended in the study was Global scale of World Health Organization (WHO) that was developed to contain (19) items of two options (Don't do=0 ; Do=1). Observational method was depended by the researchers to collect the data and fulfill the scale while the nurse measured the patient's blood pressure. Results-The study found that practice level of BP measuring was less than acceptable (42.11%). Conclusion and Recommendation-The study concluded that whenever, the patient's complaint is critical, the nurse technique of BP measurement ameliorates. It emphasizes on continuous education of all nurses regarding this nursing procedure to check and validate the health status of the patients in order to reduce potential adverse effect.

Evaluation of Nursing Staffs' Documentation Standard Related to Nursing Procedures at Medical Wards in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf Governorate

“…The result of the present study in table (3) showed the effected evaluating of nursing note documentation in chart form by (15) items under 3 level scale its (never, sometime and always). table shows that the majority of the study sample never be document the name of ward, patient age, patient gender, the time of writing the nursing notes, nursing notes every four hours, changes in the patient's condition, such as refuse from taking treatment, the nurse name and signature after documentation all nursing note.…”

“…Despite the wide recognition of the importance of quality nursing documentation and efforts made to enhance it, there are inconsistencies in the definition of good nursing documentation because of variations in nursing documentation practice based on different local requirements, documentation systems and terminologies across countries and settings. In research settings, the quality of nursing documentation has been assessed by various auditing instruments with different criteria reflecting how quality was perceived by the researchers (3).…”

Assessment of Nurse’s Knowledge toward Common Mistakes in Blood Pressure Measurement at Baghdad Teaching Hospital

“…Most (52%) were in their current job at least 3 years. (Table -2 Hameed and Allo (2018) revealed that there were significant statistical differences in nurses' techniques of blood pressure measurement in regard to their educational level. Our study revealed that nurses whose years of experience group (6-10) years have more knowledge and nurses whose years of experience group (21 and more) have lowest knowledge .…”

“…Data have been analyzed through the use of simple statistical analysis and the inferential analysis that include: Analysis of variance and the researcher used the SPSS version 24.0 to analysis of data. Table (2) revealed that majority of answers were false (13) domains, while majority of true nurse's answers were (35(0.58%) in item (13).…”

“…Hypertension is diagnosed if, when it is measured on two different days, the systolic blood pressure readings on both days is ≥140 mmHg and/or the diastolic blood pressure readings on both days is ≥90 mmHg (1) . blood pressure measurement (BPM) is considered a generic skill required in nursing, by a range of health professionals, for effective health assessment (2) .The accurate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is essential for the diagnosis and management of hypertension (3) . Critical components of (BP) assessment include use of an accurate device and an appropriate setting along with proper preparation of the subject and consistent use of a recommended standardized measurement technique (4) .…”