The Faculty of Nursing at Baghdad University discussed the master’s thesis tagged Nurses’ Knowledge’s and Skills Regarding: Management of Psychiatric disorders at Emergency Units for the student Basim Karim Abd Al Jasim.
The aim of the study to measurement of the Nurses’ Knowledge and Skills regarding management of psychiatric disorders at emergency units in Babylon governorate.
The letter also included the thesis to The results showed that nurses are young with age (27±6 year) in which 75.8% of them are seen with age group of 20-29 year. The study shows nurses have a good level of knowledge for items related to knowledge about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at emergency units as seen among 89.4%.The analysis of skill in this study showed that nurses have fair level of skills as seen among 78.8% and 17.4% among nurse have poor level of skills and 3.8% among nurse have good level of skill.
The most important recommendations reached by the study: importance of nurses’ knowledge and skill in treating cases of psychiatric disorder in emergency units, and nurses must be involved in training courses as well as opening special emergency units to deal with these cases. And the estimate that the researcher got privilege.