Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Patients Safety After Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization in Azadi Teaching Hospital in Kirkuk City

The present study aims to assess nurse’s knowledge about patient safety after diagnostic cardiac catheterization at azadi teaching hospital in kirkuk city. a descriptive study survey approach was carried out from the period of 1st march 2017 up to 1st october 2017. a non-probability (purposive sampling) method was used to select the sample of the study. the study includes the (45) nurses who are working in medical icu and cardiac medical ward at azadi teaching hospital in kirkuk city. the instrument of the study is self structured questionnaire which is developed to assess the knowledge of nurses who are working in icu and cardiac medical ward. the analysis of the data was used descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages, mean, s.d), and inferential statistical (anova and t- test). the results of the study showed that (48.9 %) of samples were in the age group between (23-27) year, and with a mean & sd of 2.13± 1.12.(64.4%) of study sample were female, (37.8 %) of the sample were graduate from nursing institute, (75.6%) of them having (1-5) years of experience in the nursing profession, (95.6%) of the nurses had no training session in cardiac catheterization. the socio-demographic characteristic of the sample of the study has no significant relationship with knowledge at (p value < 0.05). the results of the questionnaire demonstrated that the nurses who are working in medical icu and cardiac medical ward nurse’s knowledge towards patient safety after diagnostic cardiac catheterization were far from optimal. the researcher recommends the establishment educational training programs for staff working in cardiac catheterization and establishes specialized centers for cardiac catheterization.