Factors Affecting Obedience of Nurses in Applying Intravenous Catheter Procedure

Abstract

Introduction: Intravenous therapy is one of the most common procedures in patients hospitalized. Applying Intravenous Catheter procedure requires obedience in order not to cause infections that can cause phlebitis. The characteristics of nurses are predicted to influence Obedience to intravenous catheter installation procedures.
 Objective: This study aims to analyze factors affecting obedience of nurses in applying intravenous catheter procedure.
 Methods: Research objectives to analysis the characteristics factor of nurses related to Obedience to applying intravenous catheter procedures. Samples of nurses in the Mitra Keluarga Surabaya Hospital, with a total of 93 respondents selected with a simple random sampling technique. Independent variables in this study are age, education, career ladders, knowledge, attitudes. Dependent variables are the obedience of nurses. The instruments used are questionnaires and observation sheets. Data was analysed using Chi Square and logistics regression test.
 Main Findings: The results of the study showed that nurses in Mitra Keluarga Surabaya Hospital are mostly 26 - 35-year-old respondents, mostly educated Nurse Profession Program, mostly a career ladder of Clinical nurse II, and mostly are obedient. The factors that affect the obedience of nurses in Applying Intravenous Catheter Procedure are age (0.03), Education (0.000), career level (0.001), knowledge (0.029), Attitude (0.000). Of these 5 factors after being tested with multiple-logistic regression, the most influential of obedience is the attitude, with the largest B value of 53.748 p = 0.000.
 Conclusion: For hospitals it is expected to make efforts to increase the obedience of nurses by providing training on safe injection and providing supervision to the nurse in order to comply with intravenous catheter procedure.