英文摘要 |
"The ability of providing first-aid resuscitation to critical patients is an important and necessary skill for all nurses working in the emergency department. Any mistake and delay could result in devastating consequences affecting patients’ safety and outcomes. Nevertheless, from the feedback reports of doctors and team leaders, most new nurses working at the emergency department for less than 2 years are not familiar with the process of resuscitation. Very often they do not understand their role and duty during the process, resulting in repeating orders or even slowing down the resuscitation flow. In order to tackle this issue, we established an ad hoc group to help better understand the reason behind this problem and hopefully provide a solution. In June 2017, survey showed that two-year post grad nurses only score 63% on first aid knowledge test and 48.8% in degree of completion of a full resuscitation process. Reasons behind the unsatisfactory scores included not being familiar with the preparation of equipment, use of medications, and process flow; fail to understand his/her role and responsibilities; and lack of opportunities to practice when using tedious classroom teaching method. Through designing mnemonics, using videos and multimedia tools, and diversified curriculum involving scenario with simulation practice, we were able to increase first aid knowledge score from 63% to 95% and 48.8% to 96% in degree of completion. By implementing these teaching methods, we can improve professional knowledge and skills among ER nurses, thus improve the quality of clinical care." |