International Journal of Nursing Education

The nurse's needs to gain knowledge and skills in collecting and integrating evidences in to practice.

The main objectives of the study were to improve the knowledge and skills in collecting and integrating evidences in to practice.

The research approach adopted for the study was evaluative and the research design was quasi experimental. Out of eighty staff nurses forty were selected from K.R. Hospital as experimental group and forty were selected from Cheluvamba and PKTB Hospital for control group. Pre-test was conducted to know the knowledge regarding evidence based nursing practice among experimental and control group and the self-instructional module was administered to staff nurses in the experimental group and the post-test was done after the gap of two weeks for the both group.

The post-test mean value of experimental group was 11.3 (56.50%) was higher than pre-test mean value 5.97 (29.85%). The mean difference value is (5.33) and the obtained ‘t’ test value is 15.0. The obtained ‘t’ value is highly significant at p < 0.05 level. The post-test mean value of control group was 5.97 (29.85%) was higher than pre-test mean value 5.95 (29.75%). The mean difference value is 0.02 and the obtained ‘t’ test value is 0.61 which is not significant at p < 0.05 level therefore null hypotheses is accepted. The obtained post-test mean value in experimental group (11.3) was higher than post-test mean value in control group (5.97). The mean difference value is (5.33) and the obtained ‘t’ test value is 9.07 which is not significant at p < 0.05 level therefore null hypotheses is rejected.

The self-instructional module was very effective in improving the knowledge regarding evidence based nursing practice.