1Nurse, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata
2Lecturer, RMCON, AU
“Monitoring is a continuous observation or measurements of patients, their physiological function, and the function of life support equipment for the purpose of guiding management decision, including where to make therapeutic interventions and assessment of those interventions”. Monitoring helps in the early diagnosis of change in a physiological parameter and provides guidelines towards institution of appropriate therapy. Basic knowledge of the principles of monitoring and correct interpretation of data is important since a failure to do so can result in misdirected therapy
The research approach and design adopted for the study was pre experimental research design (one group pretest- posttest design). The sample consists of students studying IV year B.Sc. Nursing in RMCON. Convenience sampling technique was used. The data was collected using demographic profile, and self administered questionnaire.
The study findings revealed that most of the students 98(93%) had inadequate knowledge and only 6 (7%) students had moderately adequate knowledge with a mean score of 29.12, in the pretest, but after administering the Structured Teaching Programme 75 (72%) had adequate knowledge and 29 (28%) had moderately adequate knowledge with a mean score of 76.45
The study also revealed that there is significant association between certain academic variables and pretest knowledge score of students regarding monitors used in critical care unit. The effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme was statistically tested by Paired ‘t’ test value and the result was found to be significant at ‘p’< 0.001 level. Thus the study findings support the hypothesis
The result of the study revealed that the knowledge of students regarding the monitors used in critical care unit was inadequate. After the Structured Teaching Programme the knowledge has improved.
Monitors, Structured Teaching Programme
