Addressing Gaps in Nurses' Knowledge of Sepsis: A Literature Review

Sepsis is a dangerous and costly health care condition requiring prompt identification and emergency treatment. Bedside nurses have a crucial role in these early steps. Nurses should receive effective and timely education on identifying and treating sepsis in their patient populations. The purpose o...

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Published in:The Journal of continuing education in nursing 2021-01, Vol.52 (1), p.43-46
Main Authors: Coiner, Sarah E, Wingo, Nancy P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Care and treatment
Clinical outcomes
Education
Educational Environment
Educational Needs
Emergency medicine
Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based nursing
Infection
Interdisciplinary aspects
Knowledge
Literature reviews
Methods
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Patients
Search engines
Search strategies
Sepsis
Simulation
Teaching methods
Thinking Skills
Training
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Summary:Sepsis is a dangerous and costly health care condition requiring prompt identification and emergency treatment. Bedside nurses have a crucial role in these early steps. Nurses should receive effective and timely education on identifying and treating sepsis in their patient populations. The purpose of this article is to review the literature and to identify how current sepsis education methods are addressing the gaps in nursing knowledge of sepsis. PubMed and CINAHL databases were used to search the literature. After inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, nine articles were chosen for synthesis. Synthesis revealed three major themes: (a) assessing nurse sepsis knowledge, (b) using electronic learning methods for education, and (c) incorporating simulation into sepsis training. Gaps in the literature were also identified. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2021;52(1):43-46.].
ISSN:0022-0124
1938-2472
DOI:10.3928/00220124-20201215-11