Knowledge of the Glasgow Coma Scale among Nurses in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana

Table 2

Exposure to the Glasgow Coma Scale.

Variables	Frequency	Percentage (%)
Were you taught about the GCS during your training?
Yes	107	93.0
No	8	7.0
Quality of GCS training
Very brief and superficial	66	57.4
Very thorough but without any demonstration	28	24.3
Very thorough with demonstrations	14	12.2
Any refresher training on the GCS?
Yes	17	14.8
No	98	85.2
Frequency of GCS performance
Daily	38	33
Weekly	3	2.6
Occasionally	26	22.7
Almost never	48	41.7

Note. Eight people (7.0%) did not answer the question on quality of GCS teaching because they had answered no in a preceding question.