A study to assess Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on laboratory sample safety measures among Staff Nurses working in Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya Aurangabad city

Mrs. Shashikala S. Buyite; Ms. Suvarna Gaikwad; Ms. Nisha Jadhav; Ms. Rohini Choudhary; Mr. Shailesh Shejul

Volume : VIII, Issue : XII, December - 2019

A study to assess Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on laboratory sample safety measures among Staff Nurses working in Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya Aurangabad city

Mrs. Shashikala S. Buyite, Ms. Suvarna Gaikwad, Ms. Nisha Jadhav, Ms. Rohini Choudhary, Mr. Shailesh Shejul

Abstract :

Background: Hospital is an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people. Nurses are the largest occupational group in any health care agency. Specimen collection, preparation and handling are important tasks performed by nurses. By identifying pathogens and analyzing urine, feces, sputum and blood, one can assess the health status of a patient. Methodology: One group pre-test post-test design was used for the study. The sample consisted of 60 staff nurses. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the data. The data was collected by using base line proforma and structured knowledge questionnaire. Result: The post-test findings shows that the calculated mean was 15 as compared with pre-test mean that is 07. The calculated �t� test (t= 13.0932) shows that there is significant difference and planed teaching programme on laboratory sample safety measures was effective in improving the knowledge of staff nurses. The association between knowledge score and demographic variable was computed by using Chi- square and which shows there is no significant association between post-test knowledge score and demographic variables.