Subcutaneous Medication Administration Practices of Staff Nurses

Introduction: The word error in medicine is used as a label for nearly all of the problems harming patients. Errors in medical field are of tenly make a mark as human errors in healthcare services. The purpose of this study is to assess the subcutaneous medication administration errors done by intensive care unit nurses and to evaluate the effectiveness of event based teaching programme. Methodology: In this experimental study, 74 subcutaneous medication administration events in medical ICU of MMIMS & R Hospital, Mullana, Ambala were observed. Event based sampling technique was used to collect the sample. The data was collected by using checklist for assessing the subcutaneous medication administration practices. Reliability of the observational checklist was determined by using inter rater reliability test and it was0.82. Data analysis were performed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. SPSS-17 software was used and P values less than 0.05 were considered significant. Result: During before administering the medication the post implementation practice scores mean percentage (48.71) was higher than pre-implementation practice scores (60), during administering the post-implementation practice scores mean percentage (55.57) was higher than pre-implementation scores (46.71) and after administration it was found that the post implementation practice scores (48.97) was higher than pre-implementation practice scores (40.04). Discussion: The result shows that there was improvement in medication administration practices after implementation of event based teaching programme which was calculated at 0.05 level of significance. So, it is concluded that the Event Based Teaching Programme was effective to improve the practices of subcutaneous medication administration by staff nurses.