Abstract

EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME (PTP) ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CARE OF CHILDREN ON VENTILATOR AMONG THE NURSING STAFFS

Manisha Sunil Kulkarni* and Sunil Malhar Kulkarni

Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programmme on knowledge regarding care of children on ventilator among the nursing staffs working in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in selected hospitals of Sangli,” The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of PTP on knowledge regarding care of children on ventilator among the nursing staffs. A quantitative research approach using Pre-experimental–one group pre-test post-test design was used for this study. 50 nursing staffs were included in the study with purposive sampling technique. Structured knowledge questionnaire were used to collect the data. The validity of tool was done by 18 experts. Reliability was drawn by using split half method and coefficient of correlation and Browmans prophency. The reliability r ‘was 0.94. The study results showed that the calculated ‘t‘ value 81.2 was higher than ‘t‘ table value 2 at 0.001 level of significance (LOS). The study concluded that PTP was found effective.

Keywords: PTP, care of children on ventilator, NICU’s and PICU’s nursing staffs.