A study to Assess the Effectiveness of a Learning Package on Respiratory Care of Children on Mechanical Ventilator among Nurses of NICU and PICU in Selected Hospital of Guwahati Assam.

Ms. Maryhunlang Marboh; Mrs. Nirmali Gogoi

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2018

A study to Assess the Effectiveness of a Learning Package on Respiratory Care of Children on Mechanical Ventilator among Nurses of NICU and PICU in Selected Hospital of Guwahati Assam.

Ms. Maryhunlang Marboh, Mrs. Nirmali Gogoi

Abstract :

The respiratory care bears prime importance in case of sick child on ventilator or even in cases of some kind of respiratory assistance. A smart and well trained nurse can alert treating physician about the respiratory status if the child is doing better or is deteriorating. So keeping this in mind a pre experimental study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of a learning package on respiratory care of children on mechanical ventilator among nurses of NICU and PICU in selected hospital of Guwahati Assam.

Methods: In this study Pre– experimental one group pre test–post test research design was adopted. The structured knowledge questionnaire and observational checklist was developed to collect the data. The sample was selected by using non– probability purposive sampling technique and data collection was carried out among 35 nurses of NICU and PICU in selected hospital, Guwahati. Later pre–test & post–test was conducted before and after distributing learning package. The data collected was analyzed.

Results: The results showed that there was a marked increase in post–test knowledge and practice score. In knowledge, post–test mean was 27.88 and the pre–test was 17.45 and in practice, post test mean was 18.45 and pre–test mean was 13.48 which represents the effectiveness of learning package. The t–paired value was found to be 9.19 and 9.20 respectively which were highly significant at p<0.05 levels.

Conclusion: On the basis of the findings, the researcher concluded that the learning package was effective in improving the knowledge and practice regarding respiratory care of children on mechanical ventilator among NICU and PICU nurses.