Assess the knowledge on peri operative nursing care among nursing students at selected college
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Background: Surgery is a technology consisting of a physical intervention on tissues, and muscle. Surgical procedures are commonly categorized by urgency, type of procedure, body system involved, degree of invasiveness, and special instrumentation. Objectives: To assess the knowledge on peri operative nursing care among Nursing students. To associate the level of knowledge on peri operative care among Nursing students with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: 35 members from the B.Sc Nursing IV year student were selected. Non Probability convenient sampling technique was used in this study. Structured interview schedules were used for data collection. Results: The findings revealed that 9(25.7%) of them had inadequate, 25(71.4%) of them had moderately adequate knowledge and 1(2.9%) had adequate knowledge on peri operative nursing care. Discussion: The study findings revealed that, there was no statistically significant association was found between level of knowledge and demographic variables such as age, type of residence, no. of surgeries witnessed and no. of pre operative check list done. And there was statistically significant association was found with demographic variable duration of clinical posting. Conclusions: It was concluded that the mean score of knowledge was 15.57 with standard deviation of 2.486. So as a nurse we should conduct the nursing conferences on peri operative nursing care.
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Kalaiselvi S, Shobana S, Padmavathi Kamaraj, Rosaline Rachel
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