Professor, Amity College of Nursing, Amity University, Haryana
Online published on 20 June, 2019.
The main purpose of the study was assessing existing practices of pediatric medication administration & recognizing factors which are barrier of safe practices which helps in developing strategy to maintained standard practices. The main objectives of the study were: To find the existing practices of intravenous medication administration & to identify the factors affecting practices of pediatric administration. The study was conducted using survey approach & descriptive design. Total 80 staff nurses were selected from pediatric unit of two private hospitals of Kolkata, using convenience sampling technique & data collected by the researcher through observation & interview, using three valid tools: I Demographic Performa, II Observation checklist for assessing practice, III Interview schedule to identify factors that barrier of safe practices. Reliability was established for the tool II & tool III using inter rater method & r value found 0.80 for both tool. Study findings revealed that out of 80 staff nurses 50 (62.5%) were within the age group of less than 25 years, only 13 (16.25%) were more than 30 years & rest 17(21.25%) were within the age group of 26 to 30 years. Data also reveals that out of 80 staff nurses majority 73.75% of staff nurses had professional qualification of GNM. Data also revealed that out of 80 staff nurses majority of 80% staff nurses had total working experience within 1 to 5 years, majority of staff nurses 70% had total years of working experience in pediatric unit less than 1 year. There was no significant association with the practice of staff nurses with the selected variables at‘ 0.005 level of significance.
