Assessment of clinical proficiency of nurses of hospitals relevant to one of the Tehran medical sciences universities in critical situations in 1386

AIMS. Nursing is one of important divisions of health and medical service acting during critical circumstances; because nurses are from first personnel present in the situation of disaster and offer care service. The goal of this study is evaluation of clinical proficiency of nurses in critical situations. METHODS. Essential data were collected with questionnaires from three hospitals; Baqiyatallah, Najmieh and Jamaran. Collected data were entered to computer and assessed and evaluated with SPSS 11.2 software using descriptive statistics. RESULTS. In this study nurses were classified into three groups according to total acquired points for clinical proficiency: week (point less than 79), medium (point 80 to 125) and good (higher than 125). According to this, 14% of persons were grade week, 64.5% were grade medium and 21.5% were grade good. CONCLUSION. One of the most important needs of nurses is education of clinical proficiencies. By evaluating results, it was shown that majority of nurses in the study don’t have many of needful proficiencies for critical situations which require high science and practical experience, and need to learn essential proficiencies for critical and emergency situations is completely evident.