Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

Rubi Pradhan ¹, Geeta Rani Nayak ¹

Affiliations
1 SUM Nursing College, Sector-8, Kalinga Nagar, Ghatikia, Bhubaneswar-751030

Abstract

Newborn care and resuscitation is an important starting point for any neonatal programme that is required to ensure the best possible start in life. The important causes of neonatal deaths is birth asphyxia and along with serious infections results in more than 50% of all neonatal deaths. Neonatal Resuscitation skills are essential for all health care providers who are involved in the delivery of newborns. Nurses play an important role in improving intra natal and immediate post natal care. This can be done by demonstration, health education and guidance to the staff nurses and making changes toward better care practice. Hence the present study was conducted to assess the pre and post knowledge of staff nurses on neonatal resuscitation. The data was collected from 40 staff nurses using structured knowledge questionnaire .The study results revealed that the mean post test knowledge score (17.92) was higher than the mean pre test knowledge score(13.17).Enhancement between the pre-test and post test was obtained by paired "t" test value 6.81 for knowledge on neonatal resuscitation at p<0.001.which was highly significant in improving the knowledge of staff nurses. There is extremely significant association between the demographic variables like mass media exposer and the post test knowledge as the chi square value is 17.14 at p value 0.002.

Keywords

Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Module, Neonatal Resuscitation Knowledge, Staff Nurse, NSSK.

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Rubi Pradhan ¹

Affiliations
1 SUM Nursing College, SOA University, Sector-8, Kalinga Nagar,Ghatikia,Bhubaneswar-751030, IN

Abstract

Swine Flu-Is a respiratory tract infection from the hogs. This kind of virus can kill the human race. This infection is a worldwide virus outbreak. Prevalence of swine flu is highly contagious and has spread very fast to 191 countries. Starting from America to Europe, Asia to Africa. Number of confirmed cases and death as on 18th September 2009. In India 7374 number of confirmed cases and deaths is 225. Nurses play a major role in rendering health related information to the individual, community and society; same like in swine flu also nurses are key personnel in rendering health information to the society. Hence the present study was conducted to assess the pre and post knowledge of staff nurses on prevention and management of swine flu. The data was collected from 50 staff nurses using structured knowledge questionnaire. The study results revealed that the mean post test knowledge score (25.08) was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score (9.06). Enhancement between the pretest and posttest was obtained by paired t” test value 20.10 for knowledge on prevention and management of swine flu at p< 0.0001. Which was extremely significant in improving the knowledge of staff nurses. There is extremely significant association between the demographic variables like age and the post test knowledge as the chi square value is 19.48 at p value > 0.001.

Keywords

Staff Nurses, Effect, Leaflets, Preventive Measures of Swine Flu.

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