Nurses knowledge and practice regarding GCS techniques implementation

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is one of the best and common scoring systems used to describe the level of consciousness in a person who had a traumatic brain injury. It was invented in1974by Graham Teasdale and Bryan j. jennet. It has 3 major components first is eye-opening, second is verbal response and the third one is the motor response. The best score of GCS is 15/15 and the worst score is 3/15. Across sectional observational study performed on 150 nurses to observe nurse’s knowledge and practice regarding GCS techniques implementation. According to this study a lot of participants did not have sufficient knowledge of GCS implementation techniques in ICU and emergency departments. The study revealed that only 34.3% of Nurses have sufficient knowledge about GCS assessment and interpretation, on the other hands 65.7% of the population did not know about GCS assessment and interpretation.  It is concluded that the majority of nurses have insufficient knowledge and week Assessment regarding GCS.