International Journal of Advances in Nursing Management

The improvement of knowledge regarding Reconstructive flap and its management among Nurses working in Burns unit, Skin ward, Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery Unit has an important role in enabling the effectiveness of Structured teaching programmed as an independence nursing intervention. The objective of the study is to assess the level of knowledge regarding reconstructive flap and its management among Nurses working in selected hospital. The research design adopted was One Group Pre-test and Post-test design. The study had been conducted in selected hospital, Rajkot. Non probability convenient sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 60. As a part of intervention, a Structured teaching programmed on knowledge regarding Reconstructive flap and its management was provided to Nurses working in Burns unit, Skin ward, Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery Unit for 30 minutes and the data was collected by structured interview with set of questionnaires that is administered to assess the level of knowledge regarding Reconstructive flap and its management among Nurses working in Burns unit, Skin ward, Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery Unit. The data were analysed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired ‘t’ test was used to evaluating the effectiveness of Structured teaching programmed on knowledge regarding Reconstructive flap and its management. The obtained value 19.29, which shows highly significant at the level of p<0.001. There is significant association between demographic variables such as Year of Experience and Previous Source of Information with post-test level of knowledge on Reconstructive flap and its management. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effectiveness in improving of knowledge regarding Reconstructive flap and its management.