Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

P. Yasodha ¹, S. Veeralakshmi ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Nursing, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Coimbatore-641044, IN

Abstract

Stress is a part of life everyone feels stress at one time or another. The descriptive study was conducted to find out the perception of stress among hospitalized patients. Convenient sample of 100 hospitalized patients comprising of age group ranged from 15-90 years were involved and level of stress among the hospitalized patients were assessed by using stress inventory general questionnaire. Descriptive statistical analysis was used for data analysis and the results found that 47% of the patients experienced stress due to lack of information regarding hospital. 29% of the patients are experienced stress due to isolation from family members. 24% of the patients are experienced stress due to low socio-economic status. The study recommends that, in the hospital set up social health workers like nurses should help the patients to alleviate the stress. In the same way the patients are also should make use of those health worker and health team members to clarify the doubts regarding their condition or anything which will remove the stress and help for their prognosis.

Keywords

Stress, Patient, Hospitalized Stress.

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P. Yasodha ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Nursing, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Coimbatore - 641044, IN

Abstract

Patient satisfaction with nursing care is considered to be an important factor in explaining patient's perceptions of service quality. Nursing care is one of the major components of Health Care Services. Thus, patients have the right to expect quality of nursing care because nursing staff comprises the vast majority among hospital staff and have the greatest contact with patients. The study was conducted to assess the patient satisfaction on nursing services at obstetrical and gynaecological unit of selected hospital, Coimbatore. The design chosen was descriptive design and purposive sampling was used to select the participants. A total number of 20 mothers were included in this study. Structure Questionnaire was used to assess the patient satisfaction of nursing services. Descriptive statistical analysis was used and the results showed that 60 percentages of mothers were well satisfied with nursing services provided in the obstetrical and gynaecological unit of selected hospital, Coimbatore.

Keywords

Patient Satisfaction, Nursing Care, Quality Service.

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P. Yasodha ¹, Anju Thomas ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Nursing, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Coimbatore - 641044, IN

Abstract

Accidents are silent epidemic; they are among the top four most frequent causes of death at any age. Children experiencing accidents is nothing new; in today's sophisticated societies, accidents are predominant amongst young children. First aid is the initial treatment given to the casualty of suddenly sick or injured. Knowledge on first aid is used to manage minor injuries at home, school and work place. The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program on first aid for emergencies to primary school teachers. Quantitative approach was followed in the study, the design chosen was one group pre-test post-test design and convenient sampling technique was used to select the participants. A total number of 20 primary school teachers were included in this study. The interview method was used to collect data from the participants. The questionnaire was prepared and it consists of baseline data and knowledge questions. A structured lesson plan was formulated and education was done by using lecture cum demonstration method. The reassessment of knowledge was done using the same questionnaire which was used for the pre-assessment test. An inferential statistical analysis was used to analyze the data and the results showed that, there is a difference in knowledge level of primary school teachers before and after the education.

Keywords

First Aid, Primary School Children, Knowledge of Primary School Teachers.

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