1Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Geetanjali College of Nursing, Udaipur, Rajasthan
2Vice-Principal & HOD, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Narayana Hrudayalaya College of Nursing, Bangalore
*Corresponding author: Mrs. Sheela Bernet M. Sc (N), Vice-Principal & HOD Department of Pediatric Nursing, Narayana Hrudayalaya College of Nursing, Bangalore
Online published on 6 May, 2016.
The management of endotracheal tubes covers a large part of work time of nurses involved in the care of children. These procedures, although continuously performed, have not yet been scientifically demonstrated. At many times nurses rely on deterioration in the patient's condition to indicate when suctioning is required. Hence practice guidelines and education is necessary for pediatric ICU staff nurses on ET tube suctioning. Keeping this in mind, a quasi-experimental study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding ET tube suctioning among pediatric ICU staff nurses in selected Hospital at Bangalore.
In this study quasi-experimental one group pretest posttest research design was adopted. The structured knowledge questionnaire and observational checklist was developed to collect the data. The samples were selected by using simple random sampling technique and data collection was carried out among 30 pediatric ICU staff nurses in selected hospital, Bangalore. Later pre-test & post-test was conducted before and after structured teaching programme. The data collected was analyzed.
Results showed that the pretest mean knowledge score was 18.60, posttest mean knowledge score was 29.40, and the pretest mean practice score was 22.07, posttest mean practice score was 26.93. The significance of the findings was obtained by using paired‘t’ test, the value of pretest and posttest of knowledge and practice was 12.565 (P<0.001) and 13.978 (P<0.001) respectively, emphasizing the significant improvement. The study also revealed that there was no association found between the mean pretest knowledge and practice score with selected baseline variables.
The study concluded that there was a significant gain in knowledge and practice among pediatric ICU staff nurses following a structured teaching programme.
Structured teaching programme, Knowledge, Practice, Pediatric ICU staff nurses, Endotracheal suctioning
