Knowledge and practice on endotracheal tube suctioning among nurses in critical care wards at Hospital Universti Sains Malaysia
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Date
2021-06
Authors
Nordin, Nur Najiha
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Endotracheal tube suctioning is a vital procedure in the critical care unit. It is a
procedure that either can give benefits or harm to the patient. This research study is done
to determine the level of knowledge and practice in endotracheal tube suctioning among
nurses at the critical care wards at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM). A crosssectional
study was involving 113 respondents via random sampling. A questionnaire
survey used for data collection from October 2020 to July 2021. The test used in this
study was descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Chi-Square test using Statistical Package
of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0. The findings revealed that 61.3% of the nurses
scored good knowledge while 37.7% scored poor knowledge. Meanwhile, for the
practice, 92.1% of the nurses scored good practice while 7.1% scored poor practice. In
addition, there was no significant association between the sociodemographic data (age,
gender, level of education, working experience in critical care wards and working wards)
with the nurses’ level of knowledge and practice on endotracheal tube suctioning (pvalue
>0.05). Plus, there was no significant correlation between the level of knowledge
and level of practice on endotracheal tube suctioning among nurses in critical care wards.
As conclusion, majority of the nurses in critical care wards have good knowledge and
practice on endotracheal tube suctioning.
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Critical Care