Volume : 7, Issue : 8, August - 2018

Assessment of knowledge regarding administration of injectables with Z - Track technique among staff nurses

Ms. Vidhya. D. Suroshe, Mrs. Pratibha Wankhede

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#111111">It was felt necessary to conduct this study to compare the effects on pain and drug leakage of the standard intramuscular injection method and the &quot;Z-track technique,&quot; which is claimed to be helpful in this regard. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">Objectives:</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">1. To assess the knowledge <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">regarding administration of injectables with Z - Track technique among staff nurses. To associate the knowledge score with the selected demographic variables</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Method and Material:</b></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">The study design</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> research desig descriptive research design</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">was group predescriptive evaluatory approach. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Population </b>was</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">staff nurses in selected hospital wardha.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">Sample size</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">200.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Result</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: The above table shows that (1.5%) had poor level of knowledge, (7.5%) were having average level of knowledge, (50.5%) were having good knowledge,(40.5%)were having very good knowledge score and (0%) were having excellent level of knowledge. The minimum score was 3 and the maximum score was 101, the mean score for the test was 14.46 &plusmn;3.297 and mean percentage of knowledge was 57.84.The finding of the study show that mean and standard deviation was 14.46and 3.297respectively. And also the mean percentage of knowledge score of staff nurseswas 57.84 respectively.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;"> The level of significance scale observed for the study was <u>P&lt;0.05</u>.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p>