Intensive Care Unit Nursing Competence Assessing Awareness With GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale) Techniques

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.086How to use a DOI?

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Intensive Care, Nursing, GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale)

Abstract

The Glasgow coma scale (GCS) is an instrument used by paramedics to measure the decrease in patient awareness. GCS instruments are often used in emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICU), and neurological units. Impairment of consciousness is a dangerous condition for the patient’s life rate and is an indicator of patient death. The purpose of this study was to analyze the competence of ICU nurses to measure the decrease in patient awareness. The research method used was a cross-sectional study which involved 43 ICU nurses, 10 questions about competency to evaluate knowledge and competence. The results showed that years of service had a significant effect on nurses’ competencies in assessing neurology with a p-value of 0.007. Conclusion Assessment of patient awareness is needed so that the competency of nurses needs to be maintained consistency by refreshing new knowledge.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rudi Kurniawan
AU  - Suhanda
AU  - M.J.W Endrian
AU  - A.R Irpan
AU  - Adi Nurapandi
AU  - Elis Noviati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/24
TI  - Intensive Care Unit Nursing Competence Assessing Awareness With GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale) Techniques
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science, Health, Economics, Education and Technology (ICoSHEET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 341
EP  - 342
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.086
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.086
ID  - Kurniawan2020
ER  -