Examinando por Materia "Líquidos y Secreciones"

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Conocimiento y práctica de enfermería sobre aspiración de secreciones con circuito cerrado en cuidados intensivos del Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Lima – 2025
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2025-02-09) Paredes Huaricallo, José Luis; Zavaleta Gutiérrez, Violeta Aideé
Introducción: Los enfermeros deben tener conocimiento y buena práctica en la aspiración de secreciones con circuito cerrado, sin embargo, la mala práctica aumenta el riesgo de infecciones respiratorias y otras complicaciones que contribuyen a la mortalidad de los pacientes en la unidad de cuidados intensivos, se debe garantizar la seguridad y calidad en la atención. Objetivo: “Determinar la relación entre el conocimiento y práctica de enfermería sobre aspiración de secreciones con circuito cerrado en cuidados intensivos del Hospital Nacional arzobispo Loayza, Lima – 2025”. Métodos: La investigación es aplicada, el método hipotético - deductivo, bajo un enfoque cuantitativo, de diseño no experimental, nivel descriptivo correlacional y de corte transversal, se trabajará con 103 enfermeros a quienes se les aplicará encuestas para identificar el nivel de conocimiento y la práctica en aspiración de secreciones con circuito cerrado mediante un cuestionario que cuenta con una validez aprobada y una confiabilidad de alfa de Cronbach de 0,837 para el primer instrumento y de 0,760 para el segundo instrumento. Los resultados se analizarán usando programas estadísticos como el SPSS 26 y para el análisis de la correlación se utilizará el Spearman. Finalmente se discutirán los resultados en tablas y figuras.
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Conocimiento y práctica del profesional de enfermería de aspiración de secreciones en pacientes intubados de la unidad de cuidados intensivos de un hospital del Ministerio de Salud de Lima – 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-09-08) Fasanando Chavez, Lissette Marlene; Montoro Valdivia, Marcos Antonio
Introducción: La aspiración de secreciones es un método invasivo que se realiza para mantener las vías aéreas permeables a pacientes que se encuentren con tubo endotraqueal y traqueostomía conectados a ventilación mecánica, siendo una actividad muy importante en la UCI a nivel mundial, teniendo al licenciado de enfermería como el principal ejecutor de la actividad quien empleara sus buenos entendimientos y praxis sin poner en riesgo la vida del paciente. OBJETIVO: Determinar la relación entre el conocimiento y la práctica del profesional de enfermería de aspiración de secreciones en pacientes intubados en la UCI de un hospital del Ministerio de Salud de Lima el 2024. METODOLOGÍA: Tendrá un enfoque cuantitativa, aplicada, no experimental de corte transversal y el nivel correlacional, teniendo como muestra de 70 licenciados de enfermería que laboran en la UCI. Se utilizará un cuestionario y una lista de comprobación para realizar la medición de la variable conocimientos de aspiración de secreciones y de la variable prácticas de aspiración de secreciones, como procesamiento de datos se realizará métodos estadísticos y reporte en forma tabular y/o gráfica.
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Conocimientos sobre aspiración de secreciones y la práctica del profesional de enfermería a pacientes con ventilación mecánica en cuidados intensivos de un hospital de Lima - 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-09-08) Vera Escorza, Delia; Morillo Acasio, Berlina del Rosario
La investigación tiene como Objetivo: Determinar la relación entre los conocimientos sobre la aspiración de secreciones y la práctica del profesional de enfermería a pacientes con ventilación mecánica en el servicio de cuidados intensivos de un hospital de Lima2024. La metodología: trabajo de investigación de método deductivo, de enfoque cuantitativo, tipo aplicada, de diseño descriptivo-correlacional. La población y muestra la conformaran profesionales de enfermería que trabajen en la unidad de cuidados intensivos en el hospital Lima. La técnica para recoger los datos de la variable conocimientos será la encuesta, y como instrumento el cuestionario, modificado por Fernández-Concha y Fernández (2022), validado por siete jueces expertos, y confiable con 0,6324 según el estadístico K-Richarson; para la variable prácticas se observación y como instrumento la guía de observación modificada por Moreno (2019) validado con 84% de concordancia por siete jueces expertos, siendo la confiabilidad de 0.63 según el estadístico Alpha de Cronbach. Todo el procesamiento y análisis de los datos, será realizado a través de la estadística descriptiva que nos permitirá observar los resultados en tablas de frecuencia y figuras, así mismo se usará la estadística inferencial para comprobar la correlación de variables.
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Knowledge about aspiration of secretions and nursing practice in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of the Huacho Regional Hospital 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-11-19) Atero Varillas, Erika Luz; Cabrera Espezua, Jeannelly Paola
The secretion aspiration procedure is very important in all intubated patients who are hospitalized in the intensive care unit. It is a fundamental piece to know the knowledge and practices during the hospital stay to be able to perform it accurately and reliably. OBJECTIVE: Determine the relationship between the knowledge and practices of the nursing staff in each of the patients intubated in the intensive care unit of the Huacho Regional Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research will be developed with a quantitative approach, hypothetical deductive method, non-experimental, and correlational design, the population to be studied is made up of 89 nurses. A survey will be used to measure the level of knowledge and the observation guide will be used to measure the nurse's practices on aspiration of secretions in intubated patients, the analysis of information will be presented with tables and graphs, it will be applied with Spearman's Rho coefficient with the objective of determining the relationship between the study variables.
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Knowledge about aspiration of secretions with endotracheal tube and practice of the nursing professional of the intensive care unit of the national hospital of Callao – 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-04-07) Arostegui Torrico, Natalie Brenda; Montoro Valdivia, Marcos Antonio
Introduction: The present study is based on Watson's theory when he states that knowledge in nursing provides him with the knowledge and sensitivity necessary to guide the management of his practice in the aspiration of secretions and on Orem's theory when he states that good Practice of his technique provides the recovery of health to the patient. Objective: “To determine the relationship that exists between the level of knowledge about aspiration of secretions with an endotracheal tube and the practice of the nursing professional in intensive care in a national hospital in Callao on 2024.” Methodology: the quantitative approach was used, hypothetical-deductive method, applied type, non-experimental design, correlational scope, and transversal. The sample is made up of 80 nursing professionals in intensive care in a national hospital in Callao 2024. The instruments to be used will be the questionnaire for the level of knowledge about aspiration of secretions and the checklist for the practice of the nursing professional in intensive care. SPSS 25.0 will be used to process the data and in the hypothesis test the Spearman coefficient will be used to determine the correlation.
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Knowledge about closed-circuit aspiration of secretions and the practices of intensive care nurses in a hospital in Lima - 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-01-21) Yataco De La Cruz, Karen Ibeth; Fernández Rengifo, Werther Fernando
Introduction: Closed-loop secretion suctioning is an important procedure in the care of patients with artificial airway. Nurses who possess the knowledge and skills necessary to perform this procedure safely and effectively can contribute to improving the quality of life of these patients. Objective: "To determine how knowledge of closed-circuit secretion suctioning is related to the practices of intensive care nurses at the hospital of Lima - 2024". Methods: Using the hypothetico-deductive method and a quantitative approach, a non-experimental applied research study will be conducted at a correlational and cross-sectional level. The census sample of 91 nurses will be given a knowledge questionnaire whose validity has been tested and has a reliability of KR-20 = 0.83. In addition, the nurses' practice will be observed and measured using a valid observation guide with a reliability of KR-20=0.86. The statistical program SPSS 26 will be used for data analysis. The presentation and discussion of the results will be done through tables and figures.
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Knowledge about closed-circuit aspiration of secretions in intubated patients and the practice of the nursing staff of the intensive care service of the San Juan de Lurigancho Hospital – 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-11-05) Fernandez Segura, Anita Keyla; Cárdenas de Fernández, María Hilda
The current research project aims to see the correlation between knowledge according to the concept dimension, and practice carried out by the nursing staff using the closed secretion aspiration circuit in intubated patients in the Intensive Care area of the Hospital de San Juan de Lurigancho. The method: It is of the hypothetical-deductive type because it starts from an initial explanation called a hypothesis and thereby obtain particular conclusions from it. The population will be finite since only the nursing staff who work in the Intensive Care area of the San Juan de Lurigancho Hospital will be counted for the study, which are a total of 45 people who will have certain inclusion and exclusion criteria. Sampling is not probabilistic according to convenience, since the availability of people to be part of the sample will be seen, in a given time interval. For data collection, the survey and observation technique will be used. The instrument will be the questionnaire and the checklist that was carried out with the purpose of finding the relationship between the level of knowledge according to the concept dimension, and the practice of the nursing staff on the aspiration of secretions in a closed circuit in the intubated patients of the area. of Intensive Care of the Hospital of San Juan de Lurigancho.
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Knowledge and nursing practice in closed circuit bronchial secretion aspiration in the intensive care unit of a national hospital in Lima, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-08-13) Rodriguez Ccaccya, Maritza Lourdes; Suarez Valderrama, Yurik Anatoli
The closed-circuit secretion aspiration technique is an invasive procedure that does not require disconnecting the patient; It is performed for the extraction of secretions from the bronchial tree in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. The role of the nursing professional is essential and fundamental within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) teams; therefore, it is important to have adequate knowledge and practice in the management of closed-circuit secretion aspirations; avoiding complications in the patient. Objective: To determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and nursing practice in aspiration of bronchial secretions with closed circuit in the Intensive Care Unit of a National Hospital in Lima. Material and methods: The approach will be quantitative, correlational level, descriptive non-experimental observational design and cross section. The study population will be made up of 60 nurses from the Intensive Care Unit of a National Hospital in Lima. To measure the knowledge variable, the questionnaire prepared by Cahua will be applied through the judgment of 8 experts, validity of r ≥ 0.20 through the Pearson R formula and reliability of K-R ≥ 0.5 measured by the Kuder Richardson Statistical test and for to measure the practical variable, a Checklist will be applied, which has a validity of r ≥0.20 through the Pearson R formula and a reliability of K-R ≥ 0.5 through the Kuder Richardson Statistical test. The instruments will be delivered in person, with prior signed informed consent. A descriptive and correlational statistical analysis will be carried out. To determine the relationship between the variables, the Chi Square statistical parameter will be used, since, by their nature, they are ordinal qualitative variables and to analyze the correlation coefficient tests, the Spearman Rho statistician will be used
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Knowledge and practice of nurses on aspiration of secretions in patients with mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit of the national hospital Alberto Sabogal Sologuren. Essalud, Callao, 2022
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-01-15) Mallqui Benavente, Fabiana Violeta; Cárdenas de Fernández, María Hilda
The present research work had as general objective; to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and the practice of nurses on the aspiration of secretions in patients with mechanical ventilation in the intensive care units of the Alberto Sabogal Sologuren National Hospital, EsSalud. By 2022, the study population will be made up of 40 nurses (100%) who work in intensive care-intermediate care units. The study method used is hypothetical deductive of the applied type of non-experimental cross-sectional design. For the collection of data, the survey and observation will be used as a technique; as instruments the questionnaire (it will measure knowledge) and the Observation Guide (it will measure practice) both validated by expert judgment and Cronbach's Alpha obtaining as a result for knowledge 0.949 showing reliability of the instrument; In addition, the secretion aspiration guide checklist prepared by the nursing unit of the Children's Health Institute GP-05/INSNSB/UE-V.02. The pertinent statistical tests will be applied to confirm the hypotheses. For the processing and subsequent analysis of the data obtained in the study, the latest version of the SSPS Statistic program and the Microsoft Excel software will be used to present the statistical tables.
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Knowledge and practice of the nursing professional on suction of secretion in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of a Minsa hospital, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-08-20) Capcha Miranda, Anni Gisela; Cabrera Espezua, Jeannelly Paola
This research study will be carried out in critical patients who require the constant care of nursing staff, who must have adequate knowledge to develop good practice in different procedures such as secretion aspiration, a procedure required by critical patients with mechanical ventilation, thus exposing themselves to the risk of contracting pneumonia due to intrahospital infections, thus complicating the seriousness of their health. Because it has been a problem in public health in recent years, due to inadequate management of certain biosafety equipment, thus causing an increase in morbidity and mortality during hospital stay. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between the knowledge and practice of nursing professionals on secretion aspiration in intubated patients in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital-MINSA, 2023. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Quantitative approach, hypothetical-deductive method, applied type, design nonexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational level. With a population made up of 42 nurses. The instruments to be used are the questionnaire for the knowledge variable (validity with the Binomial V statistical test with the Aiken method: 0.73 and KR-20 reliability: 0.86) and a checklist to measure the practice variable (validity with the Binomial V statistical test using the Aiken method: 0.75 and KR-20 reliability: 0.98).
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Knowledge and practice on the secretion aspiration protocol, intensive care nursing professional, Hospital de Lima 2022
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2022-08-21) Apagüeño Ortiz, Cynthia Lynette; Montoro Valdivia, Marcos Antonio
The nursing professional is in the line of action of the provision of services that play an important role where care is focused on patients, care is the essence of the profession, it can be defined as: an activity that requires a personal and professional value aimed at the conservation, restoration and self-care of life that is based on the therapeutic relationship nurse - patient. This research work has as its main objective, to determine the relationship that exists between the level of knowledge and practice on the secretion aspiration protocol, of the nursing staff in intubated patients, cared for in the intensive care unit, of a hospital in Lima, 2022. The study has a quantitative approach, of an applied type, of observational design of a correlational and cross-sectional level. The study population is made up of a total of 60 Nurses who work in the intensive care area of a hospital in Lima. Technique and instrument for data collection. , the technique was observation and the instrument was a checklist with prior informed consent, which were prepared, created and accepted by the researchers: Romero, Tapia and Vicente, in 2017. The data will be coded and then entered into a database, created in the Excel program for later analysis and presentation.
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Knowledge and practices of suction of secretion in the nursing professional in intensive care of a private clinic in Lima, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-03-26) Balcázar César, Lesly Diana; Fernández Rengifo, Werther Fernando
In the field of intensive care, it is extremely necessary that nursing professionals have the appropriate specialization to assume the various cases that arise. One of them is the one that involves aspirating the secretions in patients who require mechanical ventilation, a procedure that involves a high risk since nosocomial infections such as pneumonia can occur, a disease that could complicate the patient's condition and endanger his life. OBJECTIVE: to determine the relationship between knowledge and secretion aspiration practices of the intensive care nursing professional at a clinic in Lima, 2022. MATERIALS AND METHODS: it will be quantitative, applied, non-experimental - cross-sectional, descriptive - correlational. 80 nurses will participate. A questionnaire and a checklist will be used to measure the variables knowledge and secretion aspiration practices, respectively.
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Knowledge and practices of the nurse on aspiration of secretions in intubated patients, intensive care unit, Emergency Hospital, Lima, 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-01-07) Requena Sosa, Nancy; Montoro Valdivia, Marcos Antonio
In critical care settings, healthcare professionals are essential to have the knowledge necessary to resolve any situation. One of them is a method that consists in the aspiration of secretions from patients. Objective: to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and nursing practices on secretion aspiration in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of an emergency hospital Lima 20234 The study population will be made up of 60 nurses (100%) working in the intensive care units (ICU) of an emergency hospital in Lima 2023. who work in the intensive care and intermediate care units. Materials and methods: The study method used is a hypothetical deductive applied non-experimental cross-sectional design. For data collection, the survey and observation will be used as techniques; the questionnaire (measuring knowledge) and the observation guide (measuring knowledge) will be used as instruments. knowledge) and the Observation Guide (measuring practice), both validated by expert judgment and Cronon's expert judgment and Cronbach's alpha, obtaining a result for knowledge of 0.86, showing the reliability of the instrument; in addition, the secretion aspiration guide checklist will be used. The pertinent statistical tests will be applied to confirm the hypotheses. For the processing and subsequent analysis of the data obtained in the study, the latest version of the SSPS Statistic program and Microsoft Excel software will be used to present the statistical tables.
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Knowledge and practices of the nursing professional in aspiration of secretions in intubated patients in the intensive care unit public hospitals Lima, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-12-10) Morán Prado, Herminia Marina; Cabrera Espezua, Jeannelly Paola
This research aims to determine how the knowledge of nursing professionals is related to the practice of aspiration of secretions in intubated patients in the Intensive Care Unit of public hospitals Lima, 2023. The study ·is of a quantitative, cross-sectional approach, non-experimental, correlational design, the population consisted of ·95 nursing professionals, the instruments used are the valid and reliable survey and observation guide. The information collected was transferred from the Excel data matrix to the statistical program SPSS version 27, which will allow obtaining the results in tables, graphs to achieve data interpretation, the Chi-square test will be applied for data analysis, there is enough evidence of statistical significance of 5% (p≤0.05).
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Knowledge and practices of the nursing professional on aspiration of secretions in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-02-19) Carranza Capillo, Evelyn Ernestina; Cabrera Espezua, Jeannelly Paola
Introduction: The aspiration of secretions in intubated patients is a fundamental procedure in the nursing care process in patients who require it in the intensive care unit, however it is vitally important to be able to count on the knowledge and have the necessary practice to be able to do it safely and in a timely manner. Objective: To determine how the knowledge and practices of the nursing professional on aspiration of secretions in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of an EsSalud hospital are related. Materials and methods: Quantitative, applied methodology, observational or non-experimental, correlational and cross-sectional design, where there will be a population of 60 nurses. Two instruments with acceptable validity and reliability criteria will be applied. The instrument that will measure the level of knowledge of the nurse on the aspiration of secretions in intubated patients will have 15 questions that include 4 dimensions: patient, equipment, biosafety and procedure, while the instrument that will measure the level of practices of the nurse on The aspiration of secretions in intubated patients has 25 items and comprises 3 dimensions: before aspiration, during aspiration, and after aspiration. Regarding the analysis of descriptive and inferential data, the former will be presented through tables and graphs, and for the latter, Spearman's Rho coefficient will be applied in order to establish the relationship between the study variables.
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Knowledge on secretion aspiration in closed circuit and nursing practice in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Metropolitan Lima 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-02-18) Valverde Rojas, Rosa Adeli; Camarena Chamaya, Luis Miguel
Introduction: Closed-circuit secretion aspiration is of utmost importance in intensive care units, as it can be life-saving for critically ill patients admitted to the hospital due to oxygen deprivation problems. Thus, in order to avoid complications in the patient's health, it is important to know the correct procedure for closed-circuit suctioning of secretions. Objective: Objective: to determine the relationship between knowledge of closed-circuit secretion aspiration and nursing practice in the Intensive Care Unit of a Hospital in Metropolitan Lima. Materials and Methods: The approach will be quantitative, observational and correlational level, non-experimental cross-sectional design, Sample: The population will be constituted by 100 nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit of a Hospital in Metropolitan Lima. Instruments: To measure knowledge, the Level of Knowledge of Closed-Circuit Secretion Aspiration Knowledge questionnaire elaborated by Moreno 2019 will be applied, with validity 0.97 and reliability 0.88 measured by Cronbach's Alpha. For the evaluation of nursing practice in closed-circuit secretion aspiration, a checklist elaborated by Cabello 2017 will be applied, with a validity of 0.87 and a reliability of 0.91 measured by the KR20 test, which indicates that both instruments are reliable. The results of the study will allow providing a better vision in patient monitoring, identifying the level of knowledge and practices of nursing professionals on secretion aspiration in intubated patients and will facilitate a reflexive behavior in the management of the intubated critical patient, which will guarantee a better professional performance.
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Level of knowledge about secretion suctioning in intubated adult patients and the practice of nursing staff in the intensive care unit of Lima Hospital 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-12-03) Quiroz Barrantes De Prieto, Gisella del Pilar; Cárdenas de Fernández, María Hilda
This research worked as an objective "To determine how the level of knowledge about aspiration of secretions in intubated adult patients is related to the practice of nursing staff in the Intensive Care Unit of the Lima 2023 hospital." The research is supported by Virginia Henderson's model of basic human needs and Watson's theory of nursing care and practice as a humanistic act. The study used the hypothetical-deductive method, quantitative approach, non-experimental design, applied type and correlational descriptive-observational scope. The sample consisted of 60 nursing professionals who work in the Intensive Care Unit of a Hospital in Lima. The instrument used to measure the level of knowledge about aspiration of secretions was the one designed by Cabellos in 2017 and for the nursing practices variable the one developed by Romero in 2017 was used. The statistician used to process the data was SPSS. 25.0.
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Level of knowledge and nursing practice on aspiration of secretions in intubated patients in the emergency service of the Hospital de Huaral, 2023
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2023-08-13) Lopez Garcia, Yuriko Griselda; Camarena Chamaya, Luis Miguel
Objective: To determine the relationship that exists between the level of knowledge and nursing practice on secretion aspiration in intubated patients in the Emergency Service of the Huaral Hospital, 2023. Methods: The present study will be hypothetical-deductive method, quantitative approach, applied type, descriptive, correlational and non-experimental design. The population and sample made up of 30 nursing care professionals, the sampling being non-probabilistic for convenience. For the processing and analysis of the survey data, first the collected information will be ordered, then the coding will be carried out, once the data has been collected, the data will be organized according to their study variables, the data will be processed using the Microsoft Excel 2019 program and the statistical software SPSS version 26.0 to generate tables and/or graphs by dimensions and indicators of the study variables; Likewise, it will be used to determine the relationship between variables through the Spearman Correlation Test (Rho).
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Level of knowledge and practice of aspiration of secretions by closed circuit of nurses in intensive care of the Cayetano Heredia National Hospital 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-01-28) Malpartida Calderon, Ingrid Patricia; Camarena Chamaya, Luis Miguel
Introduction: Aspiration of secretions is a public health problem worldwide, in the case of respiratory patients with pneumonia, aspiration of secretions through an endotracheal tube is an alternative method that can help reduce and transport mucus, but it is not a harmless method and can lead to serious harm to the patient, due to ignorance or malpractice of the nursing staff. Objective: Determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and the practice of aspiration of secretions by closed circuit of intensive care nurses at the Cayetano Heredia National Hospital 2024. Methods: it is an applied, quantitative, correlational and cross-sectional study. The census sample will consist of 36 nurses who work in the intensive care unit at the Cayetano Heredia National Hospital, the survey will be used to apply two instruments, a questionnaire and a Check LIst adapted by questionnaires on a Check List type scale adapted for the target population, are validated and reliable for measuring the variables in question. The collected data will be processed in SPSS 25 and the hypotheses will be tested using the Spearman correlation coefficient statistical test given the qualitative nature of the variables. null hypothesis and question the alternative hypothesis.
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Level of knowledge and practices of the nursing professional on aspiration of endotracheal secretions in intubated patients in the intensive care unit of a national hospital, Lima, 2024
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2024-01-28) Gaspar Esteban, Marleni Noemí; Camarena Chamaya, Luis Miguel
Objective: Determine how the level of knowledge about aspiration of secretions is related to the practice of the nursing professional in the intensive care unit of the National Hospital, Lima, 2024. The Methodology: the method is hypothetical - deductive, with a quantitative approach, applied, and transversal type; non-experimental correlational design; The sample will consist of 62 nursing professionals who work in the intensive care unit service, the instruments that will be used for the research will be the questionnaire that will measure the Level of knowledge of aspiration of secretions of 20 items and the questionnaire that will measure the practice on aspiration of secretions of 20 items which are already validated; Both instruments have a high level of statistical reliability (0.86 and 0.98 in Richardson's Kuder). Data collection will take approximately 10 to 20 minutes for each participant.