Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia

Background: Nurses and junior doctors play an important role in providing care to patients, therefore their knowledge, attitudes and practice in assessing such patients are crucial to patient outcomes. Lately, concern about the incidence of deteriorating patients has increased, especially in the...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar, Ruslan, Rusila, Al- Mahmood, Sinan, Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Malaysian Nurses Association 2016
Subjects:	RT Nursing
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/13/58002.pdf

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spelling	iium-580022018-01-22T00:59:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/ Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Ruslan, Rusila Al- Mahmood, Sinan Mat Nor, Mohd Basri RT Nursing Background: Nurses and junior doctors play an important role in providing care to patients, therefore their knowledge, attitudes and practice in assessing such patients are crucial to patient outcomes. Lately, concern about the incidence of deteriorating patients has increased, especially in the ward setting. High numbers of intensive care unit admissions are due to the transfer of deteriorating patients from medical wards. Purpose: To determine nurses‟ and junior doctors‟ knowledge, attitude an pratice in of assessment and treatment of deteriorating patients in medical wards, and their attitude toward, assessment of, and care practice with these patients. Method: A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data among nurses and junior doctors (n=191) in medical wards in three Malaysian East Coast hospitals in 2015. Data was analyzed using SPSS 22.0 for descriptive and inferential analysis. Findings: The study had a 79.5% response rate. Nurses and junior doctors perceived a good attitude and practice in assessing deteriorating patients. However, poor knowledge on assessing deteriorating patients found. Age was associated with KAP in relation to assessing deteriorating patients, and knowledge of emergency pharmacotherapy. Conclusion: Nurses‟ and junior doctors‟ lack of knowledge about emergency pharmacotherapy and assessing deteriorating patients, despite demonsrating good practice and a good attitude, must be addressed. There is a need for educational strategies to ensure that nurses and junior doctors have commensurate levels of theoretical and practice knowledge. Malaysian Nurses Association 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/13/58002.pdf Mohamed Ludin, Salizar and Ruslan, Rusila and Al- Mahmood, Sinan and Mat Nor, Mohd Basri (2016) Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia. Journal of Malaysian Nurses Association. pp. 2-16. http://www.mna.org.my/jomna/20160621_Salizar_Rusila.pdf
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spellingShingle	RT Nursing Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Ruslan, Rusila Al- Mahmood, Sinan Mat Nor, Mohd Basri Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
description	Background: Nurses and junior doctors play an important role in providing care to patients, therefore their knowledge, attitudes and practice in assessing such patients are crucial to patient outcomes. Lately, concern about the incidence of deteriorating patients has increased, especially in the ward setting. High numbers of intensive care unit admissions are due to the transfer of deteriorating patients from medical wards. Purpose: To determine nurses‟ and junior doctors‟ knowledge, attitude an pratice in of assessment and treatment of deteriorating patients in medical wards, and their attitude toward, assessment of, and care practice with these patients. Method: A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data among nurses and junior doctors (n=191) in medical wards in three Malaysian East Coast hospitals in 2015. Data was analyzed using SPSS 22.0 for descriptive and inferential analysis. Findings: The study had a 79.5% response rate. Nurses and junior doctors perceived a good attitude and practice in assessing deteriorating patients. However, poor knowledge on assessing deteriorating patients found. Age was associated with KAP in relation to assessing deteriorating patients, and knowledge of emergency pharmacotherapy. Conclusion: Nurses‟ and junior doctors‟ lack of knowledge about emergency pharmacotherapy and assessing deteriorating patients, despite demonsrating good practice and a good attitude, must be addressed. There is a need for educational strategies to ensure that nurses and junior doctors have commensurate levels of theoretical and practice knowledge.
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author	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Ruslan, Rusila Al- Mahmood, Sinan Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
author_facet	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Ruslan, Rusila Al- Mahmood, Sinan Mat Nor, Mohd Basri
author_sort	Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
title	Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
title_short	Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
title_full	Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
title_fullStr	Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia
title_sort	risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (kap) in the east coast malaysia
publisher	Malaysian Nurses Association
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58002/13/58002.pdf
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Risk assessment and responses to deteriorating patients: Nurses and junior doctors’ knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) in the East Coast Malaysia

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