A study to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding nosocomial infection among Nursing students in selected college at Chennai
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
Nosocomial infection is also called hospital acquired infections. These infections are most commonly caused by gram positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus is most common pathogen responsible for these infections and gram negative bacteria, E.coli is also common pathogen. The common nosocomial infection is pneumonia in ICU and UTI in general ward. The objective was to check the awareness of nosocomial infection between different health care practioner and patients. The sample population comprised of BSc (N) students. The data shows that out of 42 students in pre-test 1(2.3%) had inadequate knowledge, 41 (97.6%) had moderate adequate knowledge, 0 (0%) had adequate knowledge. In post-test, 40 (95.2%) had adequate knowledge, 2 (4.7%) had moderately knowledge, and none of them had inadequate knowledge. These infections also spread due to the bad sanitization quality of hospital beds bad qualities. People do not have awareness about the nosocomial so, awareness campaign was organized to avoid these infections.
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Maheswari Jaikumar, Cecilia Vardhini
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