Gargi Jadaun, Esther Pathi, Sayeeda Kharodia, Deepa Pillai, Shibani Sarangi
Prevalence of Anemia: A Hospital-Based Diagnostic Study
Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences
despite new anticoagulants developments warfarin still one commonly used medicines particularly cardiovascular system one significant challenges warfarin prevalence dangerous side effects bleeding drug food interactions negatively affect patients adequately controlled healthcare team members nurses crucial role prescribing medicine educating patients regard study conducted determine knowledge practice nurses working cardiovascular wards regarding warfarin crosssectional descriptive study knowledge practice 239 nurses working cardiovascular wards teaching hospitals affiliated iran university medical sciences investigated using european cardiovascular nurses knowledge questionnaire anticoagulants checklist highrisk drugs safety instructions sampling performed stratified sampling method proportional allocation data analyzed using spss software version 16 descriptive inferential statistics independent ttest oneway analysis variance pearson correlation coefficient inc chicago il usa mean scores knowledge 1851 387 practice 1053 212 slightly higher median lowest mean score related knowledge drug interactions 762 practice statistically significant relationship knowledge p 0001 regarding demographic variables statistically significant relationship nurses knowledge education level p 0009 nurses practice age p 0022 work experience p 0032 work experience cardiovascular wards p 0036 based findings study knowledge nurses working cardiovascular wards warfarin sufficient practice poor quality nurses lack knowledge improper practice jeopardize drug safety patients cause serious side effects bleeding proper training nursing students nurses warfarin highrisk drug side effects drugfood interactions emphasis patient education patients receiving medicine effectively reduce incidence side effects