A study to assess the effectiveness of Neonatal resuscitation Programme, First Golden minute certified training Course on knowledge and skill set of Nurses working in selected Hospital of Pune city

Seeta Devi; Sheela Upendra; Sheetal Barde

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

A study to assess the effectiveness of Neonatal resuscitation Programme, First Golden minute certified training Course on knowledge and skill set of Nurses working in selected Hospital of Pune city

Seeta Devi, Sheela Upendra, Sheetal Barde

Abstract :

Worldwide approximately one million babies die per year due to asphyxia out of which about one third approximately 3 lakhs contributed by India. A single intervention - resuscitation - deals with the problem of birth asphyxia

as it occurs.The main objectiveis to assess the effectiveness of Neonatal resuscitation training course of one day duration, among the nurses,

working in the selected hospitals of Pune city immediately after the training (Post test I) and after a gap of three months (Post test II) . Paired

t-test was applied for comparison of pretest scores with posttest 1 and posttest 2 scores. Corresponding p-values were of order of 0.000, which

were small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. The knowledge and skill set of nurses improved immediately after Neonatal resuscitation training course of one day duration. The effect was more significant even after 3 months.It concludes that nurses working in maternity

hospitals should get periodical exposure on Neonatal resuscitation programmes to update their knowledge and skill set