Conhecimento do enfermeiro(a) sobre o cuidado sistematizado de enfermagem ao cliente acometido por Insuficiência Cardíaca Congestiva (ICC)

Abstract

The present study aims to evaluate the knowledge of nurses (a) on the of nursing care and to the customer affected by ICC in a public hospital in the Reconcavo of Bahia. This is an exploratory, descriptive quantitative approach. Data collection was carried out from September 2013. Study participants were 24 nurses working in clinical units and emergency. Applied a structured questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics of professional and 10 questions found on nurses' knowledge of nursing care and customer affected by ICC. The survey results indicated that the majority of nurses (70.8%) were female, the age of the respondents ranged between 20 and 35 years, predominantly ages 25 0 30 years, with 12 participants (50%), followed by 08 participants (33.3%) aged 20-25 years 04 (16.7%) between 30-35 years, so the average age of nurses is 27 years, compared to the time training (75%) of nurses had 1-5 years of graduation, and only 05 (20.8%) were under 01 years of graduation. Thus, it is concluded that the results of this study may help to develop protocols of care to the client involved with CCI and the pursuit of improvement of nurses on caring systematized this client, enabling better treatment in order to decrease the number of hospitalizations and mortality.