| Sumario: | Background: There was Limited teaching guidelines depicted for improving the practice of nurses towards inotropic medication administration, which emphasizes the importance of teaching guidelines in improving nurses' practice, Purpose: To assess the effect of implementing guidelines regarding administering inotropic medications for critically ill patients on nurses' practice. Method: This single-hospital, Quasi-experimental research design was used in the study. The present study was carried out at Critical Care Units. A convenient sample of all staff nurses (60 nurses), the data were collected using one tool named nurses' observational checklist. Results: 93.3% of studied nurses had satisfactory level of practice regarding inotropic medications post implementing intervention guidelines. The post and follow up-intervention practice mean score was high 48.80, 48 respectively when compared with pre-intervention practice mean score 31.40 with P value < .001*. Conclusion: There was significant difference in the nurses' practice mean scores regarding inotropic medications in post and follow-up implementing guidelines when compared with pre-intervention mean practice score with P value < .001. .
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