A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on needles tick injury among 2 year basic.b.sc nursing students in selected nursing college at vijyapur
Journal Title: International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background Needle stick injury is so much common to the nursing students because they are unaware of its complications in future. The teaching programme may help the students to prevent the risk to get needle stick injury. Aims and objectives The study aimed at assessing the existing knowledge about needle stick injury; find the effectiveness of planned teaching programme and to determine the association between existing knowledge with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods Knowledge is assessed by structured knowledge questionnaire; data is analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics Results The study results show that 48.7% students had average knowledge and 43.% had good knowledge in pre test. In post test 48.7% had good knowledge and 51.3% had excellent knowledge. There is a significant difference between pre test and post test of knowledge scores as shown by t test (t = 3.028). There is a significant association between source of information regarding needle stick injury with pre test knowledge scores (X2=¬8.065, df=3). Conclusion The study concludes that planned teaching programme is helpful for increasing the knowledge. Some more study is required to generalize the findings regarding needle stick injury to aware the health care workers.
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Mr Prashant B Kulakarni
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