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Sunil
Kumar Tailor, Shiv Kumar Mudgal*,
Digpalsingh chundawat, Sandeep Garg
Nursing
tutor, college of nursing, All India institute of medical sciences, Bhopal (M.P.)
Email
suniltailor48@gmail.com   Â
*Professor,
Akal College of Nursing, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh
Email
peehupari05@gmail.com Â
Senior
Nursing Officer, All India institute of medical sciences, Bhopal (M.P.)
Email
singhchundawat.digpal@gmail.com
Assistant
Professor, Mewar B.Sc. Nursing College, Udaipur (Raj.)
Email
sandeep.pgn@gmail.com
*Corresponding Author: Prof
Shiv K Mudgal, Principal, Akal
College of Nursing, Eternal University, Baru
Sahib, Himachal Prdesh, Email: peehupari05@gmail.com
Citation: Tailor, S.K., Mudgal, S.K., Chundawat,
D.S., & Garg, S. (2020). Self-Expressed Practice of Nurses Regarding
Intravenous Therapy in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study. Med
Healthcare Rep, 2(2),1-4.
Copyright: © 2020, Prof. Mudgal SK, et
al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original author and source are credited.
ABSTRACT
Background
and Aims: Intravenous therapy meaning fluids, drugs and other
substances infused with in the vein through cannula. Intravenous therapy has
many complications because of malpractice and negligence during care of a
patient having intravenous cannula. Though many of them have follow correct practice
but do not follow each step of procedure and aseptic technique during
cannulation or Intravenous therapy.
Aims:
The present study was carried out
to determine the self-expressed practice towards administration of
intravenous therapy among the nurses working at tertiary care hospitals.
Methods:
A Cross-Sectional research design was adopted to determine
the nurses’ self-express practice on intravenous therapy. A total of 268 nurses
were selected through convenient sampling technique from a tertiary care hospital.
A self-express practice Likert scale was used to assess the nurses’ self-expressed
practice on IV therapy. The data were analyzed using descriptive and
inferential statistic using.
Result:
The finding of the study indicated that the overall mean self-expressed practice
score of nurses was 39.44±4.77. The level of nurses self-expressed practice was
significantly associated with attended any in service educational programme
related to peripheral intravenous therapy (p=0.046).
Conclusion:
Nurses had very satisfactory level of self-expressed practice
on administration of peripheral IV therapy. The administration of peripheral IV
therapy could be more improved by provision of in-service educational
programme.
KEYWORDS: Self-expressed, intravenous therapy, nurses,
practice.
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