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Competency in Measuring Blood Pressure among Staff Nurses

Sembian. N

Abstract


Objective: To assess and describe the overall and area wise competency of measuring Blood pressure among Staff Nurses and find out the association of level of competency of Staff Nurses in measuring Blood pressure with selected demographic variables.
Methods: Non experimental approach, descriptive study was conducted to measure the competency in measuring Blood pressure with 40 staff nurses. Convenient sampling technique was used and the data was collected by Check list on competency of Blood pressure measurement with nonparticipant observation technique.
Result: Only six Staff Nurses had competent in measuring Blood pressure and 85 % had moderate competency level. The overall mean competency score of the Staff Nurses was 29.93. There was no association of level of competency of Staff Nurses in measuring Blood pressure with selected demographic variables except area of working.
Conclusion: The study findings conclude that overall the Staff Nurses had moderate competency in measuring Blood pressure.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijcn.v1i2.225

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