Investigating attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation competency of nurses at a hospital for intellectually disabled people in the Western Cape

• Main Author: Lolwana, Lulama
• Other Authors: Chipps, Jennifer
• Language: en
• Published: University of Western Cape 2020
• Subjects: Attitude; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Competency; Nurse; Intellectual disability
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7670

Magister Curationis - MCur === Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a core emergency skill in which all nurses need to be proficient to save the lives of patients. It is important for nurses working in psychiatric hospitals to administer CPR correctly should the need arise. However, they rarely perform CPR as the patients they care for are generally not physical ill, unlike patients admitted in general hospitals. Given the paucity of literature on CPR in psychiatric hospitals, this study aimed at investigating the attitudes towards CPR and the CPR competency of nurses working at a hospital for intellectually disabled people in the Western Cape, South Africa