Abstract

One of the common methods of diagnosis in intensive care units of blood is phlebotomy that requires knowledge and skill of the nurses. Respecting blood taking safety is of the most important topics in nursing care and its great impact on the reduction of pre-analytic errors has been detected. Considering the importance of roles nurses in accurate blood collection, and relevant nursing care, this study was conducted to investigate the effect of educational intervention Programmed instruction methods on the reduction of pre-analytic errors of the selected intensive care units of the education and health centers affiliated with Ilam University of Medical Sciences. This study was quasi-experimental of single group conducted through pre-test and post-test method. The used tools include the questionnaire of demographic data and measuring the performance of nurses about venous blood sampling and the check list of assessment of the compliance of venous blood sampling process by nurses with guidelines adopted in this regard. SPSS 16 was used to analyze the data. The descriptive statistics mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage were used. In inferential statistics, ANOVA and chi-square tests were used. The results indicated a significant relationship between demographic variables gender, work experience, and type of employment and the observed error rate was statistically significant.