Nurse's knowledge regarding post operative care for children with cardiac surgery in surgical specialty hospital-cardiac center in Erbil City

Abstract EN

Background: Heart disease in children is mostly congenital it is the most common single group of structural malformation in children.

Postoperative care includes evaluating the patient's recovery process by checking vital signs, administering intravenous lines, ordering medications and laboratory tests as needed and monitoring the patient to ensure there are no complications after Surgery.

The study aims to assess nurse’s knowledge for post-operative care of children with cardiac surgery.

Method: A descriptive study was conducted in Surgical Specialty Hospital Cardiac Center, in period from (15th) of November 2011 to (30th) of April 2012.

The samples consist of 28 nurses’ who were giving Post- Operative care for Children with cardiac surgery and working in pediatric and Intensive care unit in Surgical Specialty Hospital-Cardiac Center.

Data was gathered through the use of questionnaire format which consist of Socio demographic characteristics of selected sample and Nurses’ knowledge regarding Postoperative Care of Children with Cardiac Surgery.

Results: Researcher has concluded that most of the nurses were from age group between (26-30) years old, and most of them were male.

More than half of them were graduated in nursing college, and most of the nurses have (1-3) years of experience.

There was significant association between years of experience and their knowledge.

Conclusion: Based on the result the researcher has concluded that most of the nurses were male, their age were between (26-30) years old, have (1-3) years of experience, were graduated from nursing college, and there was significant association between years of experience and their knowledge.