Multicenter evaluation to determine the deficiencies of emergency nurses in forensic case management.

Autor: Çelik P; Department of Health Programs, Vocational School of Health Services, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. Electronic address: pcelik@cumhuriyet.edu.tr., Çelik Ş; Department of Emergency Faculty of Medicine, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. Electronic address: simsekcelik@cumhuriyet.edu.tr., Hastaoğlu F; Department of Health Programs, Vocational School of Health Services, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. Electronic address: fhastaoglu@cumhuriyet.edu.tr., Mollaoğlu M; Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. Electronic address: mukadder@cumhuriyet.edu.tr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International emergency nursing [Int Emerg Nurs] 2024 Jun; Vol. 74, pp. 101440. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2024.101440
Abstrakt: Introduction: Emergency services are the first places where victims and/or perpetrators of different types of violence are brought for medical treatment. Emergency service nurses are the first health workers who first encounter with the forensic case, first communicate and are in an important position in the rapid and accurate continuation of the forensic process. In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of knowledge of emergency department nurses regarding the management of forensic cases.
Methods: The study was a cross-sectional, descriptive. Ninety-eight emergency nurses working in the emergency departments of three different public hospitals in the same province participated in the study. Study data were collected with the "Nurse Personal Information Form" and the "Knowledge Levels of Nurses related to the Approaches to Forensic Cases Questionnaire".
Results: 70.4 % of the nurses participating in the study were women, their mean age was (X ± SD = 27.36 ± 5.21). It is seen that 87.8 % of the nurses have a total working time in the emergency unit between 1 and 5 years and 11.2 % have received training on forensic nursing. "Total Knowledge Score" of undergraduate graduate nurses The mean score was higher and there was a significant difference between the groups (p > 0.05). The nurses who received in-service training and forensically evaluated all cases admitted to the emergency department had a higher mean score in the "Knowledge Score Regarding the Duties of Nurses Regarding Forensic Cases" mean was higher and there was a significant difference between the groups (p > 0.05).
Conclusion: We recommend the use of institutional guides/protocols together with in-service training for emergency nurses to provide medically and legally correct forensic care and to have sufficient knowledge.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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