An Empirical Investigation of Nurses’ Knowledge regarding the Management of Psychiatric Patients in Emergency Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

The Emergency Department is a fast-paced setting where nurses must deal with crucial situations such as psychologically disturbed patients. Therefore, this study has been conducted to investigate the knowledge of nurses to manage psychiatric patients in the emergency unit of a tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. A descriptive-analytic design was conducted from January 21, 2023, to March 15 2023 at an emergency unit in Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. The study instrument was designed to meet the objectives of the current study, which consists of two parts: the first part includes the demographical data for nurses; the second part includes the knowledge management Scale 32 items (KMS). The study shows nurses have a good level of knowledge of items related to knowledge about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at the emergency unit as seen among 89.4%. The study concluded that most nurses have a good level of knowledge ' about the treatment of psychiatric disorders at emergency units. Training and counselling sessions of nurses should be conducted to manage the psychiatric patients effectively.