Assessing the knowledge and attitude regarding advance technology in nursing (AtN) among nursing students who attended advance nursing technology seminar in kakinada region

As a manifestation of curriculum education environment influences learning and behaviour learners, provision and assessment quality advance technology is one of the responsibilities of educational institutions as a part of continuous advance technology provision initiatives. The advance technology in nursing focus ensuring provision of culturally sensitive evidence based practice to clients, Quality assurance and enhancement of competencies of nursing care profession

Assess the knowledge and attitude regarding Advance Technology in Nursing(ATN) among Nursing Students who attended ATN seminar, Associate knowledge and attitude scores with selected demographic variables, Correlate the knowledge and attitude of Nursing students who attended ATN seminar.

Descriptive survey approach with descriptive design was used for the study. The study was conducted on 60 Nursing students at Advance Technology in Nursing Seminar in selected colleges and schools of Nursing. Non probability convenience method of sampling was used on Nursing students who attended Advance technology in Nursing seminar in selected colleges and schools of nursing in Kakinada region.

Majority i.e. 36(60%) samples were having good knowledge, 18(30%) of samples had average level of knowledge and 6(10%) of sample had poor level of knowledge. None of them had excellent or very good knowledge, 47 (78.33%) of samples were had ‘agree’ attitude score, 13(21.67%) had undecided attitude score. There was positive correlation between knowledge and attitude score as the correlation coefficient(r=0.396) was significant (p=0.002) at 5% level of significance

The nursing students had good average knowledge and Attitude regarding Advance Technology in Nursing was ‘agree’. There was a positive correlation between the knowledge and attitude regarding Advance technology in Nursing: r value was 0.396 and P= 0.002, p<0.05 at the level of 5% significance.