Nurses’ Knowledge toward Procedure Nursing Care on Febrile Convulsions Patient in Emergency Unit Teaching Hospital in AL-Nasiriyah City

Abstract

Background: Febrile convulsion is seizure correlating with fever in the presence of central nervous system
or a cut infection electrolyte imbalance child old one month of age without notice. It is commonly infected
of (3% - 4%) of children under six years of age.
Objective: The study aims: 1-Assess knowledge of nurses toward nursing care procedure for children
with febrile convulsions . 2- Find out- relation between nurses’ knowledge and demographic information
(age,gender, marital status, level of education, Years’ experience in the domain pediatric nursing, Years’
experience in the neonatal intensive care unit, participate to training on Febrile convulsions).
Methodology: Descriptive design (cross sectional research design) performed on stage nursing care on
febrile convulsions for patient . in order Knowledge Toward Procedure Nursing Care on febrile convulsions
patient the study has been conducted for nurses in emergency unit in AL- Nasiriyah City Hospitals including
Muhammad AL-Mawsawi pediatric Hospital, Bint Al -Huda Maternity & Children Hospital .starting from
(20th September 2019) to (30th of August 2020).
A non-probability (Purposive) sample of (100) nurse from emergency unit in AL- Nasiriyah City Hospitals,
including Muhammad AL-Mawsawi pediatric Hospital,Bint Al- Huda Maternity & Children Hospital
. consisting study tool of two section : The first section is regarding that demographic characteristic of
nurse and the another section is regarding that nurses’ knowledge toward procedure nursing care on febrile
convulsions for Patient. The results by using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software
version 25 descriptive data analysis include) frequencies and percentages, mean and standard deviation).
inferential analysis (D.F. and Chi-Square) at P value 0.05.
Results: indicates that nurses are within age group of (20 – 29) years were female. The majority of the sample
are married . Regarding the level of education the majority participant of them college of nursing. Showed
that non-significant correlation between the nurses’ knowledge with their demographic characteristic at (p >
0.05), except their gender and years’ experiencethem significant.
Conclusion: Majority of the sample are age group of (20-29) years old .There is non-significant correlation
between the nurses’ knowledge with their demographic characteristic at (p > 0.05), except their gender and
years’ experience in domain of pediatric nursing revealed significant differences relationship with their
knowledge.