Titin Andri Wihastuti, Septi Dewi Rachmawati, Kumboyono Kumboyono, Dessy Rindiyanti Harista, Yulia Candra Lestari, Ida Rahmawati, Ayu Wahyuni Lestari
Background: Nurses play a role in providing nursing care for emergency patients with acute coronary syndrome. Emergency nurses have different challenges with nurses in another hospital room because they are required to master some competencies in handling the urgency cases. Method: This research employed a qualitative research with the phenomenology design approach. Participants in this study involved 40 nurses working in the Emergency Units of Rural Hospital East Java-Indonesia. In this study, nurses shared their experience in improving their quality services in taking care of patients with ACS during in-depth semi-structured interviews. Result: Based on the interviews with the participants, two major themes in the research were obtained. The first theme was the qualifications of emergency nurses was divided into three sub-themes i.e. the requirements, the care capabilities, and the ward management capabilities. The second theme was the nurse development for competence improvement, consisted of two sub-themes: continuing education and nursing service development. Conclusion: The qualifications of emergency nurses in the treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome included education and training, as well as experience, the care capabilities including nursing care components, and the ward management capabilities comprising planning, organizing, actuating, and evaluating. In addition, the nurse development for competence improvement which included continuing nursing education, as well as nursing service development were also the qualifications in the treatment of patients with ACS. © 2018, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.
School of Nursing, Medical Faculty, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
