1MSc Nursing, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed (To Be) University, College of Nursing, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
2Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed (To Be) University, College of Nursing, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding Author: Deepak Kumar Nagar Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed (To Be) University, College of Nursing, Sangli, Maharashtra, India Email: Deepaknagar6212@gmail.com
Online published on 2 November, 2018.
Mental health nurse has many of significant role in caring of psychiatric emergencies in emergency department of the hospital. The nurses carry various functions like support, reassurance, provision of medications as prescribed, involving in provision of therapies directly or indirectly, maintenance of therapeutic relationship, development of self-confidence, etc.1
To assess the existing knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among staff nurses at selected hospitals.
To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching Programme regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among the Staff Nurses at selected hospitals.
To find out the association between pre-test knowledge scores with selected demographical variables.
A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used to “A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among staff nurses at selected hospitals of sangli district’’. In this study was Total 125 Samples were selected by probability simple random sampling method. A Structured questionnaire. Karl Pearson's correlation coefficient formula was used for estimation of reliability. The reliability coefficient ‘r’ of the questionnaire was 0.75 is more than 0.7, hence it was found to be reliable. The conceptual framework based on the Adaptation theory, developed by Sr. Calisto Roy (1976), with input, processes, effectors, output and feedback.
The structured Questionnaire was used It was found maximum of 8% of hospital staff nurses were having poor knowledge and 89.6% of hospital staff nurses were having average knowledge and 2.4%of hospital staff nurses were having good knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies. The post test showed that The maximum staff nurses 58.4% of hospital staff nurses were having average knowledge were as 4.6% of hospital staff nurses having good knowledge score regarding selected psychiatric emergencies. This suggests that there is marked increase in post-test knowledge score, and structured teaching was effective. The chi-square computed between pre-test knowledge and selected variables showed that knowledge was not dependent on age, gender, educational qualification, professional experience and previous knowledge.
Planned teaching programme, on knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among staff nurses at selected hospitals
