Evaluation of Nurses’ Skills about Management of Psychiatric Patients in Emergency Unit

Abstract

Background: The emergency department (ED) is a health-care location where patients receive treatment for a range of diseases, including life-threatening crises, acute sickness and injury, and chronic-condition problems. Emergency departments (EDs) have the responsibility of providing safe emergency health care to everyone who require it in a compassionate and cost-effective manner

Material and Method: A descriptive analytic design was conducted on Evaluation of Nurses’ Skills about Management of Psychiatric Patients in Emergency Unit in Babylon governorate for the period of (December 12^th, 2021 to march 14^th, 2022). The study instrument was designed to meet the objectives of the current study, which was consisting of two parts: the first part includes the demographical data for nurses; the second part includes the Skills management Scale 37 items (SPSD).

Results: The results showed that nurses are young with age (27.89±6.291 year) in which 75.8% of them are seen with age group of 20-29 year. The analysis of skill in this study showed that nurses have fair level of skills as seen among 78.8% and 17.4% among nurse have poor level of skills and 3.8% among nurse have good level of skill.

Conclusion: The study concluded that most nurses have a fair level of skills ' about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at emergency units.