Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Mustafa Salim Abdul Alridh ¹, Ghazwan Abdulhussein Al-Abedi ², Aqeel Azeez Arrar ³

Affiliations
1 MSc. Assistant Lecturer, Pediatric Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Misan, IQ
2 MSc. Assistant Lecturer, Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Misan, IQ
3 MSc. Assistant Lecturer, Adult Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Misan, IQ

Abstract

Childbirth wounds are damage to a child before, during or shortly after birth. Childbirth injuries, also known as birth trauma, are known in various forms of severity, but most are mild and these minor injuries become common over time at birth. They are more serious injuries that cause permanent damage. It damages many parts of the body, such as brain damage, nerve damage, bone and muscle damage and, in the worst case, death. Objectives: (i) Assessment knowledge of nurse about Birth injuries. (ii) To identify the relationship between demographic data and knowledge. A survey was conducted in 80 convenient samples with a pre-validated questionnaire . the total period of study are five month 2018/11/20 and ended 2019/6/23 populations of study were the staff in the delivery rooms at AL- Amara city hospitals. The knowledge level is mean in staff nurses who has experience from (5-10) and show the age (20-24) years and have nursing secondary graduate level of education have high level of knowledge and take (1-5) training courses have higher level of knowledge .On comparing these. There is mean nurses knowledge, The study found that there is a relationship between nurses’ knowledge and demographic information (training courses).

Keywords

Nurse, Knowledge, Birth injuries.

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