Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice

EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO ASSISTED TEACHING ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING INFECTION CONTROL AMONG NURSING STUDENTS AT SELECTED NURSING COLLEGE, BANGALORE

Tejeshwari B V, A.Harini, Anita Kuriakose, Libin Mathew, Pooja Timilsena, Shalini S, Sindhu S

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Knowledge, Effectiveness, Video assisted teaching, Infection control.

Infection control addresses factors related to the spread of infections within the healthcare setting, whether among patients, from patients to staff, from staff to patients, or among staff. This includes preventive measures such as hand washing, cleaning, disinfecting, sterilizing, and vaccinating. Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or health care associated infection, a practical sub discipline of epidemiology infection, it is a vital through often non-supported and not recognized as a part of health care. Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is a major global safety concerned for both patient as well as health care professionals. Many factors stimulate infection among hospitalized patient- „decreased resistance among patient?. „Increasing variation of medical procedure and invasive techniques crafting potential roots of infection? and the transmission of drug-resistant bacteria is packed among hospital population where poor practice in infection control may facilitate transmission. Design:-True-experimental design (one group pre-test post-test design) was used to study of effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding infection control among nursing students. 50 Nursing students in Nursing college, Bangalore were recruited by nonprobability convenient sampling technique. Necessary administrative permission was obtained from concerned authority. Structured interview schedule was used to elicit the baseline data and structured questionnaires were used to elicit the knowledge of nursing students regarding infection control. Setting:-The study was conducted in selected Nursing College, Bangalore, 50 samples were selected for the present study. Result: - The study revealed that among 50 nursing students, 20 (40%) nursing students had adequate knowledge, 30 (60%) nursing students had moderately adequate knowledge & there was no inadequate knowledge found in the post-test score. The mean pre-test knowledge score of nursing students was 10.98, whereas the mean post-test knowledge score was 16.87. The obtained „t” value was 16.05 which was found statistically significant 0.05 levels. Conclusion :- The study concluded that the video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding infection control among nursing students from selected nursing college, Bangalore carried out, the study was found to be effective in the improving knowledge of nursing students as evidenced by the significant change between pretest and post-test knowledge score.