Nurses' Performance Regarding Patients with Life Threatening conditions

Abstract

Background: Nurses performance set of activities or behaviors that are performed by nurses to improve patient status and performance considering as one of the essential factors in determine the quality of hospital service and patient with life threatening need urgent care and quickly decision-making performed by nurse. Objective: Evaluate nurse’s performance toward patients with life threatening conditions in critical care units.

Methodology: A descriptive (observational) design was carried out in Al-Najaf city hospitals that include Al-Sadder Medical City, at Al-Najaf center for cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Catheterization, Middle Euphrates Hospital. And finally Al-Hakim General Hospital from October 20th, 2021 to July 30th, 2022.

Results: the evaluation of the nurse’s performance was fair (81.2%) of study participant at mean (1.85).Conclusion: concluded that the majority of the nurses had fair performance regarding patients with life threatening. Recommendation: The study recommends that those responsible for nursing in hospitals make periodic assessments of the nurses' performance and effectiveness in patient management for any emergency situation in the critical units, it is considered essential to identify their needs.