Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Biomedical waste management has recently emerged as an issue of major concern not only to hospitals, nursing home authorities but also to the environment. the bio-medical wastes generated from health care units depend upon a number of factors such as waste management methods, type of health care units, occupancy of healthcare units, specialization of healthcare units, ratio of reusable items in use, availability of infrastructure and resources etc

Quantitative Research approach was used in the study. Preexperimental one group Pre-test-Post-test research design was accepted for the study. The samples were 60 Nurses. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used.

Result of study indicate that T-value was found to be 9.63 with 59 degrees of freedom and tabular t value was 2.004. Calculated value is more than t value. Corresponding p-value was found to be very small. Since the p-value is very small (< 0.05). This indicates that the structured teaching programme had significantly improved the knowledge of nurses regarding Bio-waste management.

The Structure Teaching Programme on biomedical waste management improves the knowledge of Nurses and it impacts practices of appropriate waste disposal to prevent health hazards and environment as well.