Pediatric Nurses’ Practice towards Reporting of Intravenous Infusion Therapy Errors among Surgical Children

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Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

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Background Children have a advanced risk of being exposed to intravenous infusion errors and are more predisposed to harm. So the aim of this study was to determine pediatric nurses’ practice towards reporting of intravenous infusion therapy errors among surgical children. Design A descriptive research design was carried out. Subjects. A Convenience sampling of 30 nurses working at pediatric surgical unit in Assuit University Children Hospital. Tools two tools were used for example. A structured interview questionnaire sheet and an observational checklists. Result, revealed that mean± SD of the studied nurses practice scores through implementing standard infusion therapy (2.57±1.14,7±3.16 and4.3±1.39 respectively).Statistically significant relationship were shown between personal data such as age and qualification of the studied nurses' and their total score of practice related to intravenous infusion therapy P<0.035&0.023 respectively. Conclusion the study concluded that the studied nurses had unsatisfactory practice associated intravenous infusion therapy. So the researchers recommended that. Implementing educational training program for nurses' about intravenous infusion therapy to update their practice

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 10, Issue 3
September 2019
Pages 207-217

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