Effectiveness of an Instructional Program of Nurses Knowledge Concerning Management of Anaphylactic Shock at Emergency Units in Babylon Teaching Hospitals

Anaphylactic shock is the hyper-response of the immune system following the allergic or allergic reaction, thus threatening the life of the person and is considered a serious problem that requires direct and rapid medical intervention. The study aims at: to assess nurses’ knowledge concerning management of anaphylactic shock. A quasi-experimental design with the application of a pre-test/post-test approach is conducted for the period of October 14th 2018 to June 1st 2019 on nurses working in emergency units. by non-probability sampling (purposive sample) are chosen, (30) nurses through the verbal consent has been taken and the answering of questions have been done by using the self administrative method. The investigator informed the nurse about the study to insure their consent and discus the plan of the program. The implementation of the program and conducted the post test. A descriptive statistical data analysis approach used to describe the study variables: Frequencies, Percentages, and standard deviation. The grand mean of all items shows that there is a low level of knowledge of the at pre test toward anaphylactic shock the mean was 1.26.