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Sumangala B R*, Ananda Kudari

Volume :

11

Issue :

4

Abstract :

Background: Code Blue is a unique commonly code used to sound code group for waning or cardiac arrest clients in hospital. Code blue is usually used to instruct a patient demanding restoration or in necessity of rapid medical attention, most frequently as the consequence of a respiratory or cardiac halt. Each hospital as an amount of its policies, sets a strategy to recognize which unit deals staffs of code blue attention. It is paramount for every trained nurse to have a satisfactory knowledge concerning the code blue procedure or protocol to lessen the mortality ratio particularly in critical care units. study: was to assess the multidisciplinary educational method on Code Blue protocol management amongst nurses employed at hospital. Research design: In this study pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used. size: Total of 60 subjects were selected by using non-randomized convenient sampling technique. methods: Knowledge questionnaire regarding Code Blue protocol management was used to assess the knowledge of staff nurses. analysis: The data were collected and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study result demonstrates that the knowledge before intervention was, 72% (43) of the nurses were come under poor level of knowledge, 23% (14) were represent under average level of knowledge and the minimum 5% (03) were goes under good knowledge level. Whereas after teaching, 85% (51) of the nurses were had good knowledge level, 12% (07) were got an average level of knowledge and simply 3% (02) nurses had poor knowledge. In case of association between the selected sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, educational qualification, area of working in the hospital, cadre of nurse and Mean Pre-intervention knowledge found to be non-significant at 0.05 level. Whereas in another category, i.e. in experience in nursing service found to be significant at 0.05 level, (chi-square=11.05) (p=0.025).