Year: 2023 | Month: November | Volume: 13 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 189-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231124
Knowledge Regarding Administration of Inotropic Drugs Among Nurses Working in Selected Hospitals, Kathmandu
Jarina Shrestha1, Shashi Panday2, Ranju Gurung3
1M. Sc. Nursing in Paediatric Nursing, Assistant Professor, Innovative College of Health Science, Kathmandu, Nepal
2M. Sc. Nursing in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assistant Professor, Innovative College of Health Science, Kathmandu, Nepal
3Bachelor Of Nursing science (BNS), BP Smitri Hospital, Basundhara, Kathmandu, Nepal
Corresponding Author: Shashi Panday
ABSTRACT
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. An estimated 17.9 million people died from CVDs in 2019; representing 32% of all global deaths. An Inotrope is a medium that adjusts the power or efforts of muscle constrictions. Inotropic drugs help in improving cardiac output, easing respiratory congestion and improving the quality of cardiac muscle contraction and tissue perfusion.
Method/ Material: A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for the study. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the 113 nurses. Descriptive statistics like mean, median, frequency and standard deviation for calculating frequency and percentage and inferential statistics such as chi square test or fisher exact was used to determine the association between knowledge and selected variables.
Result: The majority 65.5% of the participants had inadequate level of knowledge followed by more than one third 34.5% had moderate knowledge and none 0% of the participants had adequate knowledge regarding administration of inotropic drugs. There is association between level of knowledge regarding administration of inotropic drugs and selected socio demographic variables among participants in the study. After the analysis through chi-square test or fisher exact test, level of knowledge regarding administration of inotropic drugs was found to be significantly associated with educational qualification (p=0.028) and working unit (p=0.035)
Conclusion: Nurses have inadequate knowledge about administration of inotropic drugs. Therefore, concerned authorities of hospital and intervention makers should be focused to train or educate nurses on administration of inotropic drugs which will ultimately leads to delivery of quality health services.
Key words: Knowledge, Administration of Inotropic drugs, Nurse