American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO ASSISTED TEACHING ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION AMONG THE FIRST YEAR BSC NURSING STUDENTS IN JEEVA COLLEGE OF NURSING AT KRISHNAGIRI

Malathi G

drpremlatamital@rediffmail.com

Effectiveness; video assisted teaching; knowledge; attitude; practice; nosocomial infection

Hospital is a place from there we will get treatment for all the disease, but there are some disease which will arise from hospital and leads to complication. Those are known as Nosocomial infection. Nosocomial infections are acquired after hospital admission by patients showing no prior signs of infection. Such infections affect patients in hospitals, long-term acute care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, dialysis clinics and other healthcare settings. Video assisted teaching programme method is excellent results. A quantitative research approach with pre experimental design was considered. After getting permission from the concerned authority the researcher started data collection. 30 samples were selected by adopting convenient sampling and obtained written consent from each sample. On day – 1 pre test was conducted by using structured knowledge questionnaire, attitude rating scale and observational check list. On day – 2 video assisted teaching programme was performed to nursing students. It includes various aspects of nosocomial infection like a introduction, definition, risk factors, causes, sources, types, mode of transmission and control and prevention of nosocomial infection. Teaching programme is followed by video assisted teaching by the researcher to nursing students, for about 60 minutes. Followed that doubts were clarified. The post test were conducted on day – 7 by using same questionnaire. The overall mean pre test and post test knowledge score on nosocomial infection paired ‘t’ value was t = 30.85 which was significant at P<0.05 level. The overall mean pre test and post test attitude score on nosocomial infection paired ‘t’ value was t = 17.16 which was significant at P<0.05level. The overall mean pre test and post test practice score on nosocomial infection paired ‘t’ value was t = 33.97 which was significant at P<0.05 level.