Abstract
Background: the preparation of injectable medication is a clinical procedure often performed by nurses, and the literature highlights the low standardisation of practices between institutions and professionals, as well as deviations regarding safety principles. Objectives: to identify the nurses' practice in preparing injectable medication; assess the nurses' level of importance assigned to the safe preparation of injectable medication; and analyse the association between the importance assigned to the safe preparation of injectable medication and the socioprofessional variables. Methodology: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. Forty-five situations of injectable medication preparation were observed through an observation grid. Subsequently, 20 nurses completed a questionnaire on the degree of importance assigned to the safe preparation of injectables. Results: there were deviations from the recommendations that guarantee the safety of the procedure. A hygiene of the hands stood out positively (95.6% adherence). The questionnaire answers showed a discrepancy between the importance assigned by participants to safety and the practices observed. Conclusion: the results allow for a first analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the preparation of injectable medication performed by nurses, allowing for the identification of intervention strategies that may contribute to improve the practices in use in the studied context.
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