Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Nurses Knowledge and Practice Regarding Glasgow Coma Scale for Neurological Clients of a Selected Hospital, Kolkata

The investigators conducted an pre-experimental study on effectiveness of planned teaching program on nurses knowledge and practice regarding monitoring Glasgow Coma Scale for neurological clients in selected hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding monitoring Glasgow Coma Scale before and after planned teaching program. The final study was conducted in Rabindranath Tagore International Instiitute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata. Study findings depicted that the majority (42%) were belongs to the age group of 24-27 years, 72% were male nurses, 82% were GNM nurses and 65% of participants had 6-12 months of working experience. Out of 60 participants, 44 (55%) staff nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge level. The mean post test knowledge score (16.13) of the participants was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score 13.28 (0.21,p<0.20) after their exposure to planned teaching program. Majority i.e. 28 nurses scored average in pretest whether 24 nurses scored very good in posttest. The posttest mean score of practice (45.93) on monitoring Glasgow Coma Scale among staff nurses was higher than mean pretest practice score 28.88 (8.51,p<0.001). There was no significant relationship between pretest knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding monitoring Glasgow Coma Scale ('t' 0.03, p>0.05).