Asian Pacific Journal of Nursing

EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING (CBT) ON LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCY REGARDING HEALTH ASSESSMENT AMONG FIRST YEAR BSC NURSING STUDENTS

Dr. Padmavathi R, Chitra A.I, Dr. Udaya Kumar T.R, Jamuna N

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Competency Based Education , Health Assessment, Nursing Students

A Pre- and Post quasi-experimental design was undertaken to assess the Effectiveness of Competency Based Training (CBT) on level of Knowledge and Competency regarding Health Assessment among First Year BSc Nursing Students in selected nursing colleges, Tiruttani. A Convenient Sampling technique was used to adopted to accomplish the objectives of the study. The sample composed of 92 first year B.Sc Nursing students enrolled for CBT on Health Assessment Course conducted by Impetus Health care skills private limited. The tools used for this study were self-structured questionnaire for demographic data, knowledge questionnaire and health assessment evaluation (OSCE) check list for six core skill .The competency based training was conducted for 6 days to cover all 92 students in the class. The post evaluation of knowledge and skill was conducted after 15 days of training using knowledge questionnaire and health assessment evaluation OSCE tool for six core skills. The study illuminated that in pre-test most of the students had inadequate knowledge (97.8%) whereas in the post-test most of the students had gained adequate and moderately adequate knowledge (27.2%, 66.3%) on health assessment. It is inferred that the pre-test mean knowledge score was 6.12 whereas in the post test the mean knowledge score was 12.79. Mean difference score was 6.674 which shows statistically very high level of significant difference at p ?0.0001.The majority of the first year students gained excellent competency on various components of health assessment such as Breast exam (85.9%), Abdomen exam (85.9%), reflexes (94.6%) and Auscultation of heart and lung sounds (88.0%) and only few students’ competency level was between good to needs improvement. The majority of students obtained excellent competencies in the areas of ear examination and neck examination Key Words : Competency Based Education , Health Assessment, Nursing Students