Knowledge and Practices on Intra Venous Cannulation among Student Nurses

Abstract

Back ground: The study is generally concerned about the care and maintenance of peripheral intravenous
(IV) cannulation and to assess the knowledge and practice of student nurses towards care and maintenance
of IV cannula. Intravenous cannulation is a commonest procedure performed by student nurses and staff
nurses in hospitals and the procedure is closely associated with the risk of nosocomial infections if standard
care is not provided. Design: Non experimental descriptive study design was carried out and non-probability
convenience sampling method used for data collection. Methods: Nurses knowledge and practice towards
intravenous cannulation were assessed using a validated semi?structured self-administered questionnaire.
Reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s ? coefficient method.Data were analysed through SPSS program
and Microsoft excel. Result :The findings revealed that 54% respondents were doing correct practices and
only 6% shown poor practices in IV cannulation. Most student nurses (68%) has good subject knowledge
of caring and maintaining peripheral intravenous cannulation but there were some(8%) without proper
knowledge. None of the demographic variables and scores of knowledge and practice has an association
except education and the practice score. Education and practice score showed the significant relation.
Conclusion: Only 6-8% of total sample expressed poor practices and knowledge . Anyhow this can be
dangerous also as student nurses are dealing with patients in hospital. Further education need to be given to
the student nurses before practicing on patients.