Cumplimiento de las actividades de enfermería en pacientes con paro cardiorrespiratorio en la fase avanzada, en el área de emergencia, del Hospital General IESS de los Ceibos.

Abstract

Nursing activities in the event of a cardiorespiratory arrest in the hospital setting must be fast, effective, coordinated and of high quality. Objective: To describe compliance with nursing activities in patients with cardiorespiratory arrest in the advanced phase. Methodologic: Design: descriptive, quantitative, prospective, cross-sectional study. Population: 100 nurses. Technique: Survey and direct observation. Instrument: Socio-labour and academic questionnaire and observation matrix. Results: Socio-labor characteristics: Sex: women 88%, men 12%. Age: 75% from 36 to 45 years old, followed by those over 45 years old 20% and from 25 to 35 years old 5%. Title achieved: 59% nursing graduates, 20% Master's, 19% nursing assistants, 2% PHD. Years of experience: more than 5 years 38%, from 2 to 4 years 34% and from 1 to 2 years 28%. Working hours: 12 hours 65% and 8 hours 35%. Training: received a CPR course 44% if received. How often do you consider it necessary to receive CPR training, 48% between 6 months to 1 year, 57% have no knowledge of advanced CPR. Interventions: General nursing activities of CPR, it was observed that it is fulfilled in 63%. Specific nursing activities for advanced CPR, 81% of the activities were fulfilled. And nursing activities after the CPR, a compliance of 56% was carried out. Conclusion: it is essential for the nursing staff to be up-to-date in the theory and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation when acting, only in this way will the quality of care be increased.