Mohamed Elsayed Ahmed Allawy^1,, Wafaa Ismail Sherief², Amal Bakr Abo El – Ata³, Samia Gaballah⁴

Background: There is no teaching guidelines denoted for improving the nurses' knowledge regarding inotropic medication administration, that emphasizes the intervention teaching guidelines necessity. Aim of the study: To assess the effect of intervention teaching guidelines regarding administering inotropic medications for critically ill patients on nurses' knowledge. Design: Quasi-experimental research design was used in the study. Setting: the present study was carried out at Critical Care Units. Sample: A convenient sample of all staff nurses (60 nurses). Tools of data collection: The data were collected using one tool titled nurses' knowledge assessment questionnaire. Results: 86.7% of studied nurses had satisfactory level of knowledge regarding inotropic medications post implementing teaching guidelines. The post and follow up-intervention mean knowledge was high 29.33, 29.40 respectively when compared with pre-intervention practice mean score 18.10 with P value < .001.

critically ill patients, inotropic medications, nurses' knowledge, teaching guidelines