American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE OF CODE BLUE AMONG NURSING STAFF OF CORPORATE HOSPITALS AND GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS

Dr.Padma sree Potru, Srivani G, Suma Priya D, Swaroopa Rani Ch, Harsha G

padmasreemsc@yahoo.co.in

Crp, Comparative Study, Code Blue, Nursing Staff, Kap Study

The “American Heart Association” published the Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2013 Update online on December 12, 2012. New out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest statistics sourced from the Resuscitation Outcomes. This is summarized in the table below, with last year statistics for comparison. The “United States government” publishes the incidence and prevalence of heart disease The annual incidence of a new or recurrent coronary attack is 1.2 million (770,000 will have a new coronary attack and 430,000 will have a recurrent attack). The life time risk of developing coronary heart disease assume you make it to age 49% for men and 32% for women. Every minute in the United States someone dies from coronary heart disease. To assess the knowledge of code blue management on CPR among staff nurses working in selected Government and Corporate hospitals of Andhra Pradesh. To assess the knowledge of code blue management on CPR among staff nurses working in Government and Corporate hospitals. Manipal general Hospital (Vijayawada) was selected for Corporate Hospital setting. It is located 28 kilometers away from the Sims College of nursing. It is 1000 bedded General hospital. It provided services to the entire Krishna district. There were 70 beds in emergency department. There are 335 staff nurses working in this hospital in different shifts. Total admission to the emergency department was 400 per month. As shown in the talble 4, that demographic variables such as Age of the staff nurses, Gender, Professional qualification, Designation in the hospital, Attended CPR Classes, Experience in ICU, No. of CPR done by staff nurses during service had no association with level of knowledge among staff nurses working in Corporate hospital setting. This study indicates that Corporate Hospital staff nurses having more knowledge when compared to the Government Hospital staff nurses.