en <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="tab-stops:16.0cm"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#f79646">Aims:</span></span></span></b><a name="_Hlk204715814"> </a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif">Moving complicated and critically ill patients has been considered risky in ICU culture for a long time.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> This research aimed to assess the knowledge of nurses regarding early patient mobility in critical care facilities and to determine the relationship between their demographics and knowledge level.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="tab-stops:16.0cm"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#f79646">Instrument & Methods:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> This cross-sectional research was performed on 93 nurses from the intensive care units at Al-Hillah Teaching Hospitals (Al-Imam Al-Sadiq and Al-Hillah Teaching Hospitals) during the period from December 1, 2023, to April 1, 2024. Data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of two sections.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="tab-stops:212.65pt 16.0cm"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#f79646">Findings:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> Only under 50% of nurses (48.4%) had inadequate knowledge about patients&rsquo; early mobilization in intensive care units at Al-Hillah teaching hospitals.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> There was no significant relationship between nurses&rsquo; overall knowledge regarding the early mobilization of patients in ICUs at Al-Hillah Teaching Hospitals and their demographic and employment data.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="tab-stops:16.0cm"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#f79646">Conclusion:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif">Only half of the nurses at Al-Hillah teaching hospitals have sufficient knowledge about early patient mobility in critical care settings,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif"> and there is no significant relationship between their knowledge about mobility in </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif">intensive care units </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif">and their demographic and employment data</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Cambria&quot;,serif">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Nurses,Knowledge,Early Mobilization,Critical Care, 237 241 http://ijwph.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1929-6&slc_lang=en&sid=3 S.S.H. Al-Salih 1003194753284600379757 1003194753284600379757 Yes Department of Adult Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Al-Qadisiyah, AL-Dewaynia, Iraq H.I. Faris 1003194753284600379944 1003194753284600379944 No Department of Laboratory and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jabir Ibn Hayyan University for Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Najaf, Iraq N.K.K. Hindi 1003194753284600379945 1003194753284600379945 No Department of Basic and Medical Science, Pharmacy College, ‎Al-Mustaqbal University, Hillah, Iraq