Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Peripheral Venous Catheter among Junior Residents and Nursing Staff: A Cross Sectional Study
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 8
Abstract
Peripheral venous catheter (PVC) or intravenous (IV) cannulation is most frequently performed clinical skill by junior residents, nurses and interns. For the safety and comfort of the patients, successful first time insertion of IV cannula is utmost important. Intravenous access exposes patients to local and/or systemic infectious complication. Considering this, an understanding of the peripheral intravenous cannulation procedure is paramount. Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about peripheral venous catheter among junior residents and nursing staff. To study knowledge, attitude and practice of junior residents and nursing staff about PVC procedure. The present KAP study was conducted at tertiary care teaching of hospital of western Maharashtra. Junior residents and nursing staff who were working in the clinical department of hospital were included using simple random method. An anonymous pre determined, structured and pilot tested questionnaire was used for data collection. Knowledge regarding infiltration, extravasations, complication of intravascular cannulation procedure and aseptic non touch technique (ANTT) were found to be poor among both groups. Residents showed poor attitude for the questions like different gauge/size of IV cannulas, aseptic non touch techniques etc. On other hand nursing staff had poor attitude towards documentation. Both junior residents and nursing staff reported poor practice while performing PIVC procedure. Based on the findings, the present study concluded that junior residents and nursing workers are poorly prepared for one of the most common clinical skills they will perform.
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Sushil Vishnu Boraste MD
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