Conhecimento e habilidade de acadêmicos de enfermagem sobre a mensuração da pressão arterial

The measurement of blood pressure is a routine procedure in the practice of nurses and its learning is a concern for educational institutions, due to failures can occur by knowledge insufficiencies. The lack of knowledge and ability culminate in the compromise of the obtained values of the measurement, interfering in the clinical evaluation of the patient. The aim of this study was to analyze the knowledge and ability of undergraduate nursing students from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal / RN, enrolled in the 5th to 9th period of the course, regarding the measurement of blood pressure. It was, therefore, a cross-sectional, quantitative and analytical study carried out at the Nursing Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal / Rio Grande do Norte. The population subject to the study was 204 students, and the sample was 76 participants based on an alphabetical list of all the academics of each period, who were selected between the odd numbers to development of the research. The study was evaluated by the Research Ethics Committee of the Onofre Lopes University Hospital (CAAE No. 0002.0.294.000-10) with a favorable opinion. The analysis of the knowledge of the subjects occurred through the application of a structured and validated questionnaire, with objective questions divided into: sociodemographic characteristics and professional / work experience, and knowledge about the procedure. The skillfulness check occurred in a simulated laboratory, with the appropriate or inadequate judgment of the items of a pre-validated checklist regarding the procedure. The results were analyzed in statistical software using descriptive and inferential statistics, using the Shapiro-Wilk test to verify the normality of the data and the Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis tests, adopting significance level α ≤ 0 , 05. There was a predominance of young women with incomes up until 5 minimum wages, with no previous activity in the care experience or nursing training, with only 6.6% working in the ...