European Academic Research ISSN 2286-4822
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Article Name :
Knowledge regarding Safe Administration of Parenteral Medication among Nurses
Author Name :
NAJMA PARVEEN, MUHAMMAD AFZAL, MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN, SYED AMIR GILANI
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
Background: Safe administration of parenteral medication is very important for the quality care of patient and it is very important for the cure of disease and promoting client health. Every individual nurse should know about the importance of safe administration of parenteral medication and should have enough knowledge to perform safe practice. Objectives: to assess the knowledge of nurses regarding safe administration of parenteral medication Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive study design was used in this research project to assessing the knowledge of nurses about safe administration of parenteral medication, the sample size was 200 nurses which are selected from Punjab institute of cardiology sampling technique data was collected from the participants through selfadministered questionnaire Results: study show that 92% of the nurses believed that this is very important to wash hand prior to the use of parenteral medicine. It is portrayed from my study that 90% of the nurses are well aware from the proper site, route and time of medicine and believed that it is very important for every nurse to know about the proper site, rout and time for administration of parenteral medicine Conclusion: Safe administration of parenteral medication is very important and every nurse should know about the safe administration of parenteral medicine. Nurses have sufficient knowledge regarding the administration of parenteral medicine but there is lack of proper practice.
Keywords :
knowledge, Nurse, Hospital, parenteral medication.

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