Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme Regarding Care of Infants on Mechanical Ventilator

A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator among undergraduate student nurses in Krishna institute of nursing sciences, karad.

To assess the knowledge of student nurses regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator before structured teaching programme.

The research approach adopted for this study is an evaluative approach. The research design selected for this present study was pre experimental design one group pretest posttest design.

The study was conducted at Krishna Institute of nursing sciences, karad. The sample size was 72 student nurses, Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select in this study. A structured knowledge questionnaire was administered to assess knowledge of student nurses regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator. Then structured teaching programme was administered on the same day of pretest to participants. Again after 7 days of administration of structured teaching programme, same structured knowledge questionnaire was administered to student nurses to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme.

The major findings of the study were: the data on sample characteristics revealed that, Maximum number of 55(69.4%) the student nurses belong to the age group of 21–23 years and minimum 22(30.5) were between 19–20 years of age.

Major of student nurses 62(86.1%) were females and 10(13.8%) were males. Majority of the student nurses 53(73.6%) received information about care of infants on mechanical ventilator from clinical experience, 9(12.5%) received from theory class, 6(8.3%) received from books and 9(4.1%) received information from net and journals respectively. Majority of the student nurses 52(72.2%) had first calass, 16(22.2%) had second class or average and 4(55%) had distinction in their last academic performance. Majority of the student nurses fathers occupation are 35(48.6%) business, 23(31.9%) service, 12(16.6%) laborer, and 2(27%) professional. Majority of student nurses mothers occupation are 51(81.9%) house wife, 9(12.5%) service, 6(8.3%) professional.

The result of major findings indicate that the student nurses had inadequate knowledge regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator. In pretest majority 42(58.3%) student nurse had average knowledge, 15(20.8%) had poor knowledge and 15(20.8%) had good knowledge: where as in post test 37(51.4%) had average knowledge, 32(44.4%) had good knowledge and 3(4.2%) had poor knowledge in total knowledge score of the study.

In pre test mean knowledge score and standard deviation of the student nurses’ regarding total knowledge score of care of infants on mechanical ventilator was 12.47 ± 2.43, which was increased in post test to 24.05 ±1.18. Obtained pre and post test scores paired t value is 40.0 and p value is, 0.0001 which is considered extremely significant, indicates significant improvement in knowledge score regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator. There was no/any significant association found between the findings and demographic variables.

The study concluded that the structured teaching programme regarding care of infants on mechanical ventilator was an effective method for providing adequate knowledge and help student nurses to enhance their knowledge for improving their nursing care.