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@article{185064,
        author = {MS. SANVEDANA VINAJI NIKURE and MR. PRABHUDAS RAIBORDE},
        title = {EFFECT OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL (SIM) ON MANAGEMENT OF INOTROPIC DRUGS AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS SERVING IN SELECTED TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS, MAHARASHTRA.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {250-256},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185064},
        abstract = {Cardiovascular diseases are a group of disorders of heart and blood vessels and include coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Heart attacks are usually acute events and are mainly caused by a blockage that prevents blood from flowing to the heart. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death which claims 17.5 million deaths annually. Health care workers working in ICU are liable for directing inotropic drug that influences the patients cardiac functioning. They should know appropriate diluents of every medication and master in dose calculation to prevent administration errors.10 They should be aware of the indication, mechanism of action, contraindications, and adverse reactions interactions of drugs. Also, they screen the patients for any negative indications and build up the nursing care plan to provide care to patients. While working it has been observed during the experience in practice that health care workers should have very attentive and alert at the time of administering inotropic drugs. It was also found that many of the health care workers were administering drugs by procedures. The proper planning and management of administering drugs certainly improve an effective among the patients therefore in view of effectiveness in management of inotropic drugs surely assist the health care workers. So based on this I was inspired to conduct this study. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The Primary Objective was to find out the effect of SIM on management of inotropic drugs among health care workers serving in tertiary care hospitals, Maharashtra Secondary Objectives To assess the knowledge of health care workers on management of inotropic drugs before intervention in experimental and Control group. To find out the effect of SIM on management of inotropic drugs among health care workers after intervention in experimental and control group. To find out the association between post-test knowledge scores and selected demographic variables of health care workers in experimental group. A quasi-experimental with non- randomized control group design was used to find out the effect of self-instructional manual on management of inotropic drugs among conveniently selected 160 health care workers (control-80 & experimental group-80) serving in selected tertiary care hospitals, Maharashtra. RESULT From the findings, it was observed that the pre-intervention demographic variables of health care workers in control and experimental group were more or less similar revealing both the groups had common characteristics. It was observed that the percentages of knowledge (control group; 52.70% & experimental group; 49.80%) had average knowledge, on management of inotropic drugs among health care workers were more or less similar before intervention. However, after an intervention, the percentage of knowledge and the mean scores of health care workers were significantly increased in experimental group whereas it was remained unchanged in control group. There was a significant difference between pretest and post-test knowledge scores in experimental group. And, there was also a significant difference between the post tests of control and experimental group. However, after an intervention, the overall percentage of knowledge on management of inotropic drugs was increased from 14.59% to 21.79% in experimental group. However, during pre-test the level of     very good knowledge was 1.3% whereas it was significantly increased to 5.1% during post-test in experimental group. Prior to intervention, 42 nurses had average knowledge (52.7%) whereas only 4 nurses remained in the post-test with average knowledge (5.1%). However, the knowledge was almost remained unchanged in control group. There was a significant difference (p<0.0001) between pre-test and post-test knowledge scores in experimental group. And, there was also a significant difference (p<0.0001) between the post tests of control and experimental group. No significant association (p>0.05) was found between knowledge on   management of inotropic drugs and age, gender, professional qualification, total work experience, & source of information of health care workers. CONCLUSION Findings of study revealed that SIM on management of inotropic drugs was effective among health care workers serving in selected tertiary care hospitals, Maharashtra},
        keywords = {},
        month = {September},
        }