Background: Several medical procedures are performed daily in the intensive care
unit (ICU). It is evident that complications still occur frequently and are potentially life-
threatening. The most common support and monitoring devices used in the ICU include,
intravenous catheter, nasogastric tube, endotracheal tube, central venous catheter,
hemodialysis double-lumen catheter and chest tube. Aim: This study aimed to assess nurses
performance regarding invasive procedures Design A descriptive explorative design was
utilized for the conduction of this study. Setting The study was carried out at intensive care
units at El-Matrya teaching hospital. Study subject: A convenience sample of all available
nurses(30)nurses working at the previous mentioned setting Tools: I – nurses' self –
administrated questionnaire form which consisted of nurse's demographic characteristics'
and nurses' knowledge II nurses' practice observational checklist regarding invasive
procedures. Results: revealed that 63.3% of the studied nurse's had satisfactory total level of
knowledge, while 53.3 %had satisfactory level of practice regarding invasive procedures.
Conclusion: around two third of the studied nurses had satisfactory knowledge and around
half of studied nurses had satisfactory practice with invasive procedures.
Recommendations:: improved nurses theoretical knowledge, clinical practice and
continuous evaluation of nurses knowledge and practice regarding invasive procedures at
intensive care unit