Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Led Nurse Education on Enoxaparin Injection Technique in Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Iraq
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https://doi.org/10.54133/ajms.v6i1.622Keywords:
Enoxparin, Injection technique, Nurses, Nursing educationAbstract
Background: Proper injecting technique ensures maximum effectiveness and minimizes the incidence of enoxaparin-related local side effects. Objective: To develop a pharmacist-led educational program and evaluate its benefit in improving the nurses' enoxaparin injecting technique for hospitalized patients. Methods: A pre-post study design was conducted from March to July 2023, involving nurses working the day shift at Baghdad Teaching Hospital. Nurses were given an interactive education through a brief lecture with open discussion and training on the correct enoxaparin injecting technique. A clinical pharmacist observed and recorded the enoxaparin injecting technique for each nurse twice: once at the start of the study and again after the nurse's enrollment in the educational program. Results: At the baseline level, only 12.5% of the participating nurses had a good technique for injecting enoxaparin. The nurse's gender, level of education, work history, or workplace did not significantly affect her poor enoxaparin injection technique. After enrolling nurses in the pharmacist-led educational program, the number of nurses with a good enoxaparin injection technique significantly increased from 12.5% to 59%. Conclusions: Effectiveness was improved considerably by the currently developed interactive pharmacist-led nurse education.
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