Nursing educational intervention in the prevention of complications in health-related situations

Abstract

A peripheral venous access is the insertion of a catheter to obtain access to the venous circulation for drug administration or fluid therapy, which is not exempt from complications, which are preventable. For this reason, an educational intervention on prevention of complications from peripheral venous access was developed at Hospital Básico de Paute, through a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and quasi-experimental study, with a sample of 38 participants, A survey with 12 questions was administered to determine the level of knowledge of biosafety measures in the management of peripheral venous access. The statistical analysis, descriptive by means of absolute and relative frequencies and measures of central tendency in both pretest and posttest, normality test by Shapiro Wilk, t-test for related samples to evaluate the impact of the educational intervention, was carried out using the statistical program Infostat. Of the total number of participants, 86% were women. Statistically significant differences were found (p 0.001) between the pretest and posttest, obtaining a positive impact, which contributes to strengthening knowledge on biosafety measures in peripheral venous access, to prevent complications, improving the quality of care.