Nurses’ awareness regarding nursing care of hypertensive patients in a Shar Hospital in Sulaymaniyah city
Background: Some of the most common NCDs in Sulaymaniyah include cancer, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease which are responsible for over three-fifths of all deaths. The goal of this study was to examine nurses’ knowledge of hypertensive patient nursing care.
Methods: The data for this investigation was collected using a self-administered questionnaire in a descriptive cross-sectional study design. The participants were told about the goal of the study so as to obtain their agreement. They were explicitly instructed on how to complete the questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.
Results: In this study, little more than (60%) of the participants were female, with (73%) of them being Muslims. Moreover, over half of the respondents (53.0%) held a nursing B.Sc., and the service experience of (51.3%) of them was over ten years. Around (70.4%) of them had the experience of attending a hypertension workshop, and (92.2%) knew how to assess normal blood pressure. About (92.2%) of participants are aware of the causes of hypertension, and (82.6%) are aware that hypertension management aims to reduce morbidity and death, but only (39.1%) are aware of the suggested diet for hypertensive patients.
Conclusions: The findings revealed that the nurses’ knowledge of hypertensive patient treatment and hypertension knowledge was excellent. Developing nurses’ expertise in respect to the important factor in planning for comprehensive nursing care for a better prognosis for the patient is hypertension.
Keywords: Nurses, Knowledge, Hypertension, Diseases
