Background: In the domain of performing care and cure affaires, one of the basic principles in most health centers is the muscle injections and dressing. As a psychomotor domain, after years and reaching the normality level of muscle injections and dressing, alterations may occur in the performance. So we attempted to investigate the relation between the background experience of the hospital staff and their consideration about the standards of muscle injections and dressing in different wards of selective hospitals in Esfahan.
Materials and methods: In this analytic cross-sectional study, data were obtained through different checklists to observe the importance of considering the standards of muscle injections and dressing, after certifying the validity and reliability. By random sampling, 38 cases of muscle injection and 31 cases of dressing were observed without notifying the practitioner. After completing the checklists, they were informed because of moral considerations then those who agreed to take part in the research, the demographic questionnaire was also completed and obtained data were analyzed by SPSS software.
Results: Most cases were married women aged 29-31 for muscular injections and 22-30 for dressing. The nurses who did muscular injections had 10-19 years work experience and who did dressing had 1- 9 years work experience. There was no significant association between the experience and considering the standards of muscle injections (NS), whereas this relation for considering the dressing standards were significant (p=0.02). Most cases with considering the importance of standards of muscle injections and dressing did the care at medium degree (%55.2 and %51.5, respectively).
Conclusion: professional experience was correlated with considering the dressing standards, while it showed no significant association with muscular injection.