Self-Assessed Capabilities, Attitudes, and Stress among Pediatric Nurses in Relation to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Abstract

Background

In emergency medicine, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the most stressful scenarios for nurses who conduct both basic and advanced resuscitation methods.

Aim

This study aimed to assess nurses’ self-assessed capabilities, attitudes, and stress related to CPR.

Methods

This cross-sectional, observational study was carried out on 748 pediatric nurses at six governmental hospitals. A self–assessed ability questionnaire and a structured stress and attitude questionnaire was used for data collection.

Results

For self-assessed abilities, 45.5% of the nurses had moderate scores. Concerning stress, 48.3% had moderate scores and 63.1% negative attitudes. Also, attitude and self-assessed abilities had a high-frequency negative effect on stress scores (P<0.05).

Conclusion

Attitude scores increased and stress scores decreased significantly with postgraduate educational level, attendance at training courses on pediatric basic life support and automated external defibrillator use, being exposed to >10 cardiac arrest cases in the previous year, and having an advanced life-support license (P<0.05). Positive attitudes and improving self-assessed abilities decreased the nurses’ stress levels related to CPR.

Keywords:

• attitudes
• nurses
• self-assessed capabilities
• stress
• pediatric life support

View correction statement:

Self-Assessed Capabilities, Attitudes, and Stress Among Pediatric Nurses in Relation to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation [Corrigendum]

Acknowledgment

The authors thank all the nurses who participated in this study for their contribution.

Disclosure

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest concerning the research, authorship, or publication of this article.

Additional information

Funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, or publication of this article.