Background Learning environment is an important base for learning processes of students and for preferences of future workplaces. It is considered as an essential factor in determining the success of an effective curriculum and the students’ academic achievements. This study attempts to assess the perception of learning environment among the nursing students. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to conduct the study among 122 nursing students studying at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Science. Data were collected following total enumerative sampling method using a self-administered questionnaire. Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory tool was used to assess the perception of learning environment. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) was used to describe the demographic and other related variables. One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to find out the difference in the overall scale score and its subscales across the selected socio-demographic variables (age, ethnicity, residence, year of enrollment) of the respondents. Results The mean age of the students was 21 ± 1.46 years. Majority of the students were from Province no. 1 (57.4%) and largely from Sunsari district (25.4%). First year students were found to be more satisfied (68.23%) with the educational environment (136.45 ± 16.93) compared to student of other years. Academic self-perception (21.94 ± 3.42) was the highest scoring subscale (68.57%) while the social self-perception (16.43 ± 2.96) was the lowest (58.66%). The overall DREEM score (131.25 ± 15.82 out of 200) indicated that perception of learning environment among the students was positive. Despite overall positive perception, students perceived that the teachers were authoritative and there is lack of good support system for the students at the time of stress. The total DREEM score varied significantly between the years of enrollment (p < 0.05). Conclusion The current study showed positive perception of learning environment which varied significantly according to the year of enrollment. However improvements are required across all the five domains for the high quality educational environment. Future qualitative studies are recommended to confirm and to have in-depth understanding of this finding.
Background: Hospital Acquired infection may cause prolonged hospital stays, higher mortality, long- term disability, increased microbial drug resistance, and excess health-care costs. Recently HCAI has become a major issue in health- care safety that concerns the safety of patients and HCWs.The main aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding Hospital Acquired Infection and its prevention among B. Sc. Nursing first Year students. Methods:One group pretest posttest research design was used to find out the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding Hospital Acquired Infection and its prevention .In this study, 60 B. Sc. Nursing first year students who were studying in SGRR College of nursing Dehradun, India were enrolled. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive, inferential statistics was used to find out association between the knowledge and selected demographic variables. Results: Overall total Knowledge score showed that majority of B. Sc. Nursing first year students, 54 (90%) had inadequate knowledge, 6 (10%) of the students had adequate knowledge regarding HAI and its prevention and (mean +_SD) pre-test 12.70 +_3.993 as compare to post –test 16.95+_3.873. Conclusion: ICU, HCWS report suboptimal levels of HAI and its prevention adherence. This finding in high-risk areas is particularly concerning given that it likely over estimate actual practice. Improving HAI control will likely require closing knowledge gaps in hospital infection control practice. Keywords: Knowledge, Hospital Acquired infection, B. Sc. Nursing student
Abstracts -17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine Prehospital and Disaster MedicineVol. 26, Supplement 1 key-informant interviews was conducted. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate data. Results: A Unified Command structure was utilized for pre-/ post-event response. Patient surveillance data was collected daily. During the festival 217 participants (42% female, 58% male, Average age 36) sought medical care. Acute illness (n = 166), injury (n = 39), other (n = 15), routine follow up (n = 9), chronic conditions (n = 6), mental health (n = 1), OB/GYN (n = 1) were complaints addressed. Predominant acute illnesses included headache (n = 49, 23%), respiratory illness (n = 30, 14%), musculoskeletal pain (n = 26, 12%), and gastroenteritis (n = 17, 8% Objective: Human-stampede events are emerging epidemics with large unplanned or impromptu mass gatherings. They are increasing in frequency worldwide, yet little is known of the epidemiology and other characteristics that would allow for communities to prepare, prevent and properly manage medical outcomes. We report a non-traditional methodology to identify a stampede's epidemiological characteristics using news reports, social networking, and systematic search of the internet. This hitherto unused technological dimension is a useful adjunct to obtain crucial data on mortality and morbidity, improve immediate understanding of the pathophysiology of the event, and provides opportunities to develop public education to remove potential bottlenecks and improve crowd control of these preventable tragedies. Method: A LexisNexis search was followed by sequential searches of multiple internet-based English-language news agencies and the few research reports available in the scientific literature. Date, country, geographical region, time of occurrence, type of event, location, mechanism, number of participants, number injured, and number of deaths were recorded. Descriptive analysis was performed for deaths, injuries and location for this abstract. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to find the change in knowledge regarding disaster management among nurses after educational intervention. Methods: One group pretest and post test design was adopted for the study. The study was carried out in B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal. Forty Nurses were selected from emergency, orthopedics, medicine, and surgical ward by using non-probability convenience sampling technique. A selfadministered semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was collected before and after the educational intervention. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi-square and Z test) were used to identify the difference in knowledge between pre-test and post-test, at 0.05 level of significance. Results: Study findings revealed that in the pre-test, grand mean of the means of the nurses' knowledge on different aspects of disaster management as a whole was ...
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Awareness of risk factors of CVD is the first step towards effective preventive strategies to combat the CVD burden in diabetes patients. This study aimed to assess the awareness of risk factors of CVD among patients with diabetes mellitus attending diabetic clinic of B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS). Methods: A cross- sectional study was conducted among 112 patients with diabetes in diabetic clinic of BPKIHS. Convenient sampling was used for data collection over duration of six weeks using interview schedule by HDFQ II tool. The data were analyzed in the statistical package for social science software (SPSS) 16 versions and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Majority of respondent were aware about common risk factors such as (83.9%) smoking, (78.6%) physical activity, (75%) increasing age, (75.9%) high blood pressure, (71.4%) overweight respectively. Whereas most of the respondents were not aware about high cholesterol, fatty diet, preventive strategies and association of diabetes with CVD. Awareness was statistically significant with educational status, monthly income, residence, CVD information received and co-morbid condition as a heart disease. Conclusions: Based on finding most of the respondents were aware about common risk factor even though they have inadequate level of awareness on overall risk factors of CVD among the risk factor they were poorly aware about cholesterol, gender and preventive aspect. So Effective education on diet and appropriate preventive strategies of CVD are indeed important to reduce CVD burden in diabetes patients.
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