Magda Bayoumi
Beni-Suef University, Egypt
Title: Nurses’ perception toward using a new eight vital signs chart at ICUs
Biography
Biography: Magda Bayoumi
Abstract
Background: Assessment of the traditional vital signs at ICUs as temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and oxygen saturation are inadequate to determine patients’ clinical condition deteriorating; however assessment of eight vital signs should be included in a routine nursing assessment to improve patients’ outcomes for appropriate nursing diagnosis on proper time.
Aim: To assess nurses’ perception toward using a new eight vital signs chart at ICU.
Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study design was used in this study composed of 45 nurses from all ICUs at the Beni-Suef University Hospital from November 2015 to January 2017., data were collected using structured interview to assess nurses’ perception toward using a new eight vital signs chart at ICUs.
Results: The study findings demonstrate the distribution of all nurses’ perception items and found more than two third of the study sample (68.9%) were agreed to use eight vital signs, and almost all nurses had fantastic perception to eight vital signs, moreover about (84.4%) had adequate knowledge regarding assessment of pain, level of consciousness, urine output , as well as more than half of study sample reported the degree of importance is extremely important to assess additional three vital signs with basic vital signs (55.6%) . However barrier may face nurses to assess pain, level of consciousness and urine output were reported high percentage (91.1%), and (97.8%) agreed to use the new eight vital signs chart at ICUs and defiantly it will help for better design of Nursing Diagnosis.
Conclusion: ICU nurses strongly agreed to apply new 8 vital signs chart at ICUs for meticulous designing of nursing diagnosis of patients’ clinically unstable.
Recommendation: The study is recommended to consider the importance of application a new eight vital signs chart instead of traditional five vital signs and generalized it in the hospital documentation system.
Keywords: Eight vital signs, ICUs, Nurses’ Perception, Egypt.