Effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding intranatal nursing care in order to improve knowledge among student nurses of Sumandeep nursing college.”

AIMS & OBJECTIVES:(1) To assess the pre–test on knowledge regarding intranatal nursing care among nursing students of Sumandeep nursing college at Piparia, Vadodara. (2)To evaluate effectiveness of Structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding intranatal nursing care among nursing students of Sumandeep nursing college at Piparia, Vadodara.(3)To find out association between pre–test knowledge score with selected demographic data.

MATERIAL AND METHOD:. One group pre–test, post–test research design, which belongs to pre–experimental design.

RESULTS:As “t” value of knowledge (25.55) is highly significant at 0.05 level. Hence researcher found association between pre–test and post–test knowledge score regarding intranatal nursing care on nursing student.The findings indicate variable such as Age(X²=1.64), Sex (X²=0.3385), Current living pattern (X²=0.288), Type of family(X²=4.002) and Course of study (X²=1.1)  showed significance at 0.05 level of significance. Thus it can be interpreted that there is significance association between pre–test levels of knowledge score among nursing students with their selected demographic variables.H₂  is partially accepted.

CONCLUSION:. Post day was conducted 8^th day after implementation of  structured teaching programme using the self–structured knowledge questionnaires to find out the effectiveness. The ‘t’ test was computed between pre–test and post–test score indicate that there was improvement the level of knowledge among nursing students. Hence it indicates that Structured teaching program was effective.