WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Serly Sani Mahoklory*, Ahsan and Mukhamad Fathoni 

ABSTRACT

The increasing number of head injury in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is mostly caused by traffic accident and fall. That happens due to the fact that the livelihood of majority native NTT is Palmyra Palm Tree (Borassus flabellifer) slicer which demands them to climb 15 to 30 meters tree. Moreover, 58.4% of native NTT does not wear helmet in riding their bike which is dangerous and life threatening if traffic accident occurred. Nurses in emergency room have important role in taking care head injured patients. However, the first aid which is care bundle management does not conducted well. Automatically, it influenced the quality of care received by patients. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze factors influencing nurses in conducting care bundle management of head injured patients in emergency department in Kupang. The method used in this study is quantitative with cross sectional approach which involved 114 respondents. The technique used in taking the sample is purposive sampling. The obtained data which were analyzed using simple linear regression analysis shows that p value of nurses’ knowledge factor is 0.003 < ? = 0.05, nurses’ skill factor is p = 0.017 < ? = 0.05, nurses’ resources factor p = 0,006 < ? = 0,05, and team work factor is 0.011 < ? = 0.05. It can be concluded that H0 is rejected or there is influence among nurses’ knowledge, skill, resources, and team work on conducting care bundle management. Nurses’ knowledge is the most influential factor on conducting care bundle management in emergency department in Kupang with R value of 7.6%.

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