A descriptive study to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding obstetrical emergencies and its management in selected hospital of Greater Noida

Background: Obstetrical emergencies are life threatening medical conditions that occur in pregnancy, during or after delivery and the leading cause of maternal perinatal mortality morbidity. It comprises 46% worldwide (PARK J.E. 2007). The emergency pregnancy threaten wellbeing both mother child may labour (in post-partum period). Being primary health care provider nurses have key roles identification prompt management obstetric emergencies. Objectives: To assess knowledge staff regarding obstetrical its management. find out association between selected demographic variables nurses. Method: research approach adopted for this study is descriptive nature, Non-experimental design used. 80 subjects were collected by using convenient sampling techniques. researcher introduced himself to respondents explained purpose After investigator data from self-structured questionnaire Result: majority respondents, where having 66.8% about part-1 (over all management). In other parts 4 namely (PPH, cord prolapsed, uterine rupture Shoulder dystocia). 49.3% part-2 (PPH management), 40.9% part-3 (cord prolapsed 46.9% part-4 (uterine management) 39.9% Part-5 (shoulder dystocia Significant check chi square test. There no significant score following (Age, professional qualifications, working area, experience, previous experience maternity related services/ward.). gender variable at 0.05 level significance means female more than male Conclusion: Majority maximum Emergencies was minimum 39.9%.