Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2015

Study to assess the effectiveness of planned education on phototherapy among nursing students

Angel Rajakumari. G

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Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of structured education on knowledge, attitude and practice regarding phototherapy among nursing students. Participants and setting: A pre – experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in chandana school of Nursing, suryapet, telugana, India. The investigator selected 50 nursing students who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Intervention: Data was collected regarding demographic variable, knowledge, attitude practice of the nursing students on phototherapy. The investigator assessed the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of the nursing students by using structured questionnaire and modified three point Likert Scale and by using checklist through one to one teaching by lecture, demonstration, video clippings and verbalization. Structured teaching programme was conducted on the same day on group wise each group consists of 17members. Data collection was done in Telugu and English the questionnaire was distributed to each nursing students. At the end of the teaching the doubts were cleared. Then 10 minutes was allotted for discussion. Measurement and findings: The analysis finding indicates clearly that 48% of students had inadequate knowledge and 68% of them had negative attitude and 62% of them had poor practice regarding east self examination. A well planned structured teaching programme given to the same group. The effectiveness of programme showed high level of significant at p<0.001 level. It showed that structured teaching programme was an effective method to improve the knowledge, attitude and practice of phototherapy. Conclusion: The study revealed that most of the nurses had high level of knowledge and they had also applied good practice during the care of the baby with phototherapy

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Angel Rajakumari.G Study to assess the effectiveness of planned education on phototherapy among nursing students Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 6 June 2015

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