Abstract :
Reconstitution is the process of mixing the solvent medium into a dry powder
mass to produce suspended or dissolved substances. Mixing injectable drugs,
including reconstitution of antibiotic injections, should be carried out by
pharmacists, but in reality all of them are still carried out by non-pharmaceutical
personnel, apart from the lack of correlation. The hospital has the impression that
it violates the rules with very limited facilities and knowledge. To prevent errors
in compounding, pharmaceutical staff attend aseptic technique training to
minimize contamination during compounding. The purpose of this study was to
determine the relationship between characteristics and knowledge of
pharmaceutical technicians in reconstitution of antibiotic injections at UNS
Hospital inpatients. This research is a descriptive research with the type of
correlation study which studies the relationship between two or more variables.
Data collection is done by total sampling. Data retrieval using a questionnaire and
processed using the SPSS 21.0 For Windows application. The results of this study
indicate that the characteristics include gender, p value = 0.014, at = 0.05 (p<α),
education p value = 0.961, at = 0.05 (p>α), length of work p value = 0.719, at
=0.05 (p>α). The conclusion obtained is that there is no significant relationship
between education and length of work. There is a significant relationship between
gender in the knowledge of pharmaceutical technicians in reconstitution of
antibiotic injections at UNS Hospital inpatients