Abstract

Aim. The aim of this study was to evaluate cardiac intensive care nurses’ performance in usingintravenous Streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction patients.

Background. Acute myocardial infarction is a common disease. Use of thrombolytic drug includingStreptokinase reduce mortality rate in these patients. Nurses have an important role in injectingthis drug.

Method. This descriptive study was conducted on 68 nurses who work in cardiac emergency room andcoronary care unit. Data were collected by observation check list of nurses’ performance. The data wereanalyzed by descriptive statistic and Chi-square.

Findings. The findings showed that the manner of presenting nursing care in pre- Streptokinase infusionstage was moderate in 52.9% of observations, but during the injection in 55.4% of observations and afterinjection, in 45.6% of observations was poor.

Conclusion. The care of patients was moderate and poor, therefore it is recommended to paymore attention to education of nurses about using intravenous Streptokinase for acute myocardial