Assessment Of Knowledge Attitude Practice And Associated Factors Towards Fluid Balance Monitoring Among Nurses Working In Adult Icu Of Federally Administered Government Hospitals In Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2020.

Fluid Balance is net result of intake and output of fluid to provide metabolic processes Background:rnto function correctly. In Intensive care unit the patient needs special consideration for Fluid balancernmonitoring. Fluid balance monitoring is very vital component in intensive care unit for managementrnand good patient prognosis. Recent studies show negative fluid balance and positive fluid balancernadversely affects patient morbidity, mortality and patient length of stay in hospitals.rn Even if there is some related researches but still little is known regarding fluid balance monitoring.rnObjectives: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses working in ICU towards fluidrnbalance monitoring and associated factors in federally administered government hospitals, AddisrnAbaba, Ethiopia from October 2019 to June 2020.rnMethods: institution based quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted from February to April,rn2020 among federally administered government hospitals in Addis Ababa. Well-structuredrnquestionnaire for socio-Demographic characteristics, attitude, knowledge and checklist for practicernwas adopted from literatures with little modification. The data was entered into Epi-data, version 4.6rnthen analyzed by using SPSS 24 Software. Finally the result was computed and interpreted through usernof descriptive statistics. Association between variables was analyzed by using logistic regression at pvaluern

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