Knowledge for Assessments and Management in the Early Stage of Sepsis in Critical Care Pediatric Patients among Pediatric Nurses at the Tertiary Care Level Hospital, Northeastern of Thailand
| Main Authors: | Pradthana Jankhuang, Juraporn Tangpukdee |
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| Format: | Article |
| Terbitan: |
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3534046 |
Daftar Isi:
- Pediatric sepsis is usually measured to comprise a range of disorders that result from infection by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Literature was prolific around effects of sepsis, septic shock, sepsis assessment and management but none had woven these topics together to explore what was going on in the role of pediatric nursing. The descriptive study aimed to study the knowledge for assessments and management of the early stage of sepsis among pediatric nurses. The descriptive results were employed in the full research process for development of Clinical Nursing Practice Guideline Development. The purposive sample consisted of 30 nurses who worked in pediatric intensive care unit at the tertiary care level hospital, Northeastern of Thailand. The knowledge for assessments and management tool has developed by the researchers and verified by five experts. The questionnaire content validity indexes were 0.9. Reliability was tested using KR-20 was 0.77. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. The findings of the study showed the aged group between 20-30 years 67%, 31-40 years 23% and 41-50 years 10%. The working experiences in a pediatric intensive care unit less than 5 years 37%, 5-10 years 50%, 10-15 years 0% and over 15 years 13%. There are experienced in training about pediatric sepsis 77% and there have not being trained 23%. The pediatric nurses had a knowledge level for assessments and management of pediatric patient in the early stage of sepsis in a most medium level as 63.4% and low level as 36.6 %, none of them is in high level. This study suggests that education pediatric nurses about the knowledge for assessments and management in the early stage of sepsis in pediatric patients should be provided and the clinical nursing practice guideline for pediatric care and prevention progressive of sepsis in pediatric patient should be developed.