Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge about Management of Pregnancy with Danger Signs

Background: A well-equipped obstetrics unit, proper knowledge of danger signs, and the ability to take immediate action can help prevent maternal mortality. As the nurses being the primary health care providers, their preparedness for obstetrics emergencies attains paramount importance. Objective: the study aimed to assess nurses knowledge about management of pregnancy with danger signs and to find out relationship between these nurses knowledge and their specific demographic characteristics Methodology: A descriptive study design was carried to assess nurses knowledge. A non-probability (purposive sample) of (50) nurses working in the emergency room, labour room, and maternity care. The questionnaire is divided into two sections: demographic characteristics of the nurses and knowledge on how to manage danger signs in pregnant women. Results: The current study shows that nurses age mean (27.624) years in which the highest with age group 26-30 years, most of nurses was live in urban as seen with 92% of them.most of the study sample has a nursing schools education and have 1-5 year of experience Conclusions: nurses knowledge about management of pregnancy with danger signs was fair level of knowledge and there is no statistically significant association with demographic characteristics.