McConnell E A, Fletcher J
University of South Australia, School of Nursing, Adelaide.
J Adv Nurs. 1993 Oct;18(10):1586-94. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18101586.x.
Registered nurses are primarily responsible for the use of medical devices in direct patient care. This cross-sectional survey compared how and what 139 registered nurses working in a variety of wards/units in a 1000-bed tertiary care hospital in South Australia initially learned about the life-sustaining and non-life-sustaining medical devices they use. Furthermore, the consequences of device use both for patients and staff were explored. How and what registered nurses initially learned about life-sustaining and non-life-sustaining devices were remarkably similar. Consequences of device use, which included increased or decreased quality of care, increased nurse stress and patient harm, were related, in part, to knowledgeable and proficient device use. Thus, device education for nurses is essential and warrants further exploration.
注册护士主要负责在直接护理患者时使用医疗设备。这项横断面调查比较了南澳大利亚一家拥有1000张床位的三级护理医院中，在各个病房/科室工作的139名注册护士最初是如何以及通过何种方式了解他们所使用的维持生命和非维持生命的医疗设备的。此外，还探讨了设备使用对患者和医护人员的影响。注册护士最初了解维持生命和非维持生命设备的方式和途径非常相似。设备使用的影响，包括护理质量的提高或降低、护士压力的增加以及对患者的伤害，部分与对设备的了解和熟练使用有关。因此，对护士进行设备教育至关重要，值得进一步探索。
