Nurses` Knowledge toward Nutritional Status for Patients with End Stage Renal Failure at Al-Hussain Teaching Hospital in Al- Nasiriyah City

Abstract

Objectives of Study :To Assess of nurses knowledge toward nutritional status for patients with end stage renal failure. to find a correlation among knowledge of nurses with socio-demographic attributes.Methodology: A descriptive study is carried out on non-probability sample of (100) nurses who work on dialysis units and dialysis wards at Al-Hussain Teaching hospital in Al-Nasiriyah city. The research was carried out over an interval of September 15 th 2020 to March 15 th 2021. In order to achieve the study's goals, an interview questionnaire is used as a research instrument. A pilot study is done to assess the reliability and validity of the questionnaire by 12 experts. A descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the findings. Results:The research findings are as follows: the bulk of the current study (64%) were female and the remaining were male. The highest percent of the study sample (29 percent) were within age group (25-29) years old. In regard to the subject marital status, the majority of the sample were married, and they accounted for (56 %) of the whole sample. Relative to their professional qualification, the greater number of nurses were with Bachelor`s degree in nursing and they accounted for (47 %). Concerning years of experience, the majority of the sample (72%) having 3 -5 years of experience in working field.