To investigate awareness situation and training demands of emergency nurses on intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients, so as to provide basis for relevant trainings for nurses, and to improve quality of intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients.

In February 2015, a self-designed questionnaire was given to 165 emergency nurses in 3 level three class A general hospitals in Beijing for their knowledge of intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients.

A total of 165 questionnaires were handed out, and all were retrieved, with 5 incomplete ones, and 160 effective, with recovery rate 100% and effective rate 96.97%. Average score of knowledge of all the objects were (13.34±1.37), and 8 people got excellent scores, with excellent rate only 5%. Nurses′ awareness of intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients was not influenced by gender, age, education background, years of working, job title, post, whether with specialized emergency nursing qualificationor with teaching qualification of clinical nursing (P>0.05). Among the 160 nurses surveyed, 96 (60%) had received knowledge about intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients, and 144 (90%) were eager to be trained in the future.

Emergency nurses do not have comprehensive knowledge about intra-hospital transport. Relevant training should be strengthened, and standardized training system should be established, so that awareness and clinical practical abilities of emergency nurses can be enhanced, and degree of safety of intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients can be improved.

Emergency; Critically ill patient; Intra-hospital transport; Awareness; Questionnaire