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Volume 6, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Nursing Global 2017
March 01-02, 2017
March 01-02, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands
24th Global
Nursing & Healthcare
Nurses’ perception toward using a new eight vital signs chart at ICUs
Bayoumi Magda, Al-morshed B, Sayed A, and Mosa A
Beni-Suef University, Egypt
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 ICUs
Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study design was used in this study composed of 45 nurses from all ICUs at the Beni-Suef
University Hospital fromNovember 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.
Biography
Magda Bayoumi is currently working as an assistant professor in Beni -Suef University and the specialization is on Critical Nursing. DR. Magda Bayoumi is
RN,MSN,DSN Lecturerin the Medical-Surgical Nursing Department of Beni- Suef University, Egypt.
Bayoumi Magda et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:1 (Suppl)