Assessment of Health Care Providers Knowledge about Six Sepsis Pathway at Intensive Care Unit in al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Al-Muthanna City

Abstract

 Introduction:  Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the patient's imbalance reaction to an infection causes harm to the body's own organs and tissues. Using Six Sepsis pathway is very important to decreases mortality  to 50  percentage   Previous research has found many challenges to the perform  of sepsis pathway , with the medical and nursing workers identifying conflicting views

Methodology: Quantitative design (a descriptive Study) has been carried out to Assessment of  health care providers knowledge about six sepsis pathway at intensive care unit in al-Hussein teaching hospital in Al-Muthanna city. Non probability sampling has been performed of  (40) s health care providers for the present study. The sample is assigned to the study according to the following criteria:  Both gender of  health care providers  who are  worked  at  intensive care unit in Al-Hussein teaching Hospital. There had  at least one year of experience at unit The data is collected through the utilization of developed questionnaire (Arabic version ) and by means of self-report  give the form to each nurse who is included in the present study. The investigator met the nurses in the hospital to get agreement to participate in the study and to clarify the study questionnaire. The validity of the instrument has been established through a panel of 10 experts. The pilot study has been carried out  10 health care providers who work in  intensive care unit  reliability has been performed for determined internal consistency of the instrument.

Results of study. the  study  show that that (70%) don’t have knowledge regarding six sepsis pathway). There is no significant relationship between the demographic characteristics of the study sample,  ages and gender and marital status and the health care provider knowledge. While the education level and job description show  a significant relationship a t P-value equal or less than (0.05 ). With health care providers overall  knowledge

conclusion:   Overall, this study describes the knowledge of health care profession the study indicated  that the nurses had comparatively lower knowledge than physicians  regarding six sepsis pathway While the education level and job description show  a significant relationship a t P-value equal or less than (0.05 ). With health care providers overall  knowledge.

Recommendation: Engaging critical care professions  in special training course for improve knowledge and practices concerning  six sepsis steps