Assessment of nurse’s knowledge about care of children treated with Ventricular Peritoneal Shunt

Background: Hydrocephalus in children can treated medically or surgically, mostly surgical treatment managed preferred, usually by an opening of the obstructive lesion carried out by ventriculostomy or a shunt (ventriculoatrial, ventriculoperitoneal) insertion. The most common procedure is the insertion of a ventricular peritoneal VP shunt in neurosurgical intervention preferred treatment for hydrocephalus, which is an effective procedure for drainage the CSF from the brain ventricles in to peritoneal cavity. Aim: assessment nurse’s knowledge toward care of children treated with ventricular peritoneal shunt. Construct and Apply an interventional program for nurse’s according to their need assessment . Methods: A pre experimental design that perform to the interventional program at Mosul Teaching Hospitals. from 3 ed of December / 2021 till 30 th of March / 2022. The sample of the study was chosen purposively (non-probability). The participant was (30) nurses from morning and evening shift. The format of questionnaire consists of two parts (demographic data, knowledge questionnaire). Results: the total nurses' knowledge about care for children treatment with ventricular peritoneal shunt, that 53.3% (16) of the sample at Poor Knowledge level with mean (1.53) and standard deviation (0.629) of knowledge in assessment result. Conclusions: Most nurses in age between (20-29 years) and bachelor level of education. The years of work in hospital was between (1-5 years). The nurses have less than five years of experience in neurosurgery unit. And two thirds of nurses did not receive training courses about VP shunt. The result of total nurse’s knowledge during assessment was poor.