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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
INTRODUCTION. Asphyxia is a cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, leaving motor and cognitive sequelae. Nurses attend to newborns from birth, participate in their resuscitation to avoid the implications that this entails. OBJECTIVE. WedxTo evaluate knowledge and practice of neonatal resuscitation of nurses of the Neonatology Service, Regional Teaching Hospital of Cajamarca. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Descriptive, cross-sectional study in nurses who signed informed consent. A questionnaire and checklist was used. RESULTS. 22,9% of nurses obtained more than 80% of correct answers in the questionnaire , among them 22,6% with specialty in neonatology, 50% in Neonatal Intensive Care and only 10% without specialty; 16,7% of nurses in the Immediate Care Sub-Unit, 10% of Intermedios, and 44% of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit approved the questionnaire. More than half of those who reached the established score were between 35 and 43 years old, and with work time in the Neonatology Service between 0 and 5 years; All the nurses who passed had at least one training in neonatal resuscitation. The average knowledge score and resuscitation practice was 19,5 and 10,0 points respectively. CONCLUSION. The knowledge of neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation of nurses was optimal in almost a fifth of them while the practice was sub optimal in all.
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