A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Utilization of Crash Cart Trolley among III-B.Sc. Nursing Students at Selected College Villupuram

Abstract

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding utilization of crash cart trolley among III -B.Sc Nursing students at selected college, Villupuram Objectives: To assess the knowledge on utilization of crash cart trolley among III-year, B.Sc [N] students. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding utilization of crash cart trolley among III year, B.Sc [N] students. To find the association between the post-test knowledge regarding utilization of crash cart trolley among III year, B.Sc [N] students with their selected socio-demographic variables. Methodology: A Pre experimental design with pre-test and post-test without control group was undertaken from E.S College of nursing. The population of the study consists of B.Sc (N) III Year students at E.S. College of nursing. Results: The structured questionnaire was used to computed the data. The statistics shows the following results. Level of knowledge in pre-test 80% of students having inadequate knowledge, 20% of students having moderate knowledge, 0% of students having adequate knowledge. Level of knowledge in post-test 0% of students having inadequate knowledge, 10% of students having moderate knowledge, 90% of students having adequate knowledge. There was significant with gender and source of information. There was no association between age, previous academic year percentage, previous exposure to crash cart trolley. Conclusion: The present study assessed the knowledge regarding crash cart trolley in pre-test. After providing structured teaching programme on utilization of crash cart trolley there is a significant improvement on knowledge of students regarding crash cart trolley. The study assessed the knowledge among students and they are gained in knowledge about crash cart trolley. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving in the knowledge regarding crash cart trolley. Keywords: Utilization of Crash Cart Trolley

Knowledge and Practice of Internship Students on the Emergency Crash Cart System in a Selected Tertiary Care Hospital, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India

“…11 Another supporting study conducted by Khemnar et al, the results showed that only 2% of subjects had good knowledge. 1 Similar study was conducted by Kumar and Murthy, in which the pretest revealed that 4th year BSc nursing students were having low levels of knowledge on utilization of emergency crash cart system with a mean score of 18.35. 4 Similar study conducted by Thampi showed that in pretest knowledge assessment 43.3% of study subjects had good knowledge on crash cart system, 20% had average knowledge, and 36.7% of staff nurses had poor knowledge about crash cart system.…”

“…A structured knowledge questionnaire on knowledge regarding emergency crash cart system was developed by the investigator with 32 items with maximum score of 32 to assess the knowledge of internship students regarding emergency crash cart system [9][10][11][12][13] Knowledge score was graded as good knowledge, average knowledge, and poor knowledge. The questionnaire was distributed by the investigator to internship students and the time taken by the subjects to complete the questionnaire was approximately 20 minutes.…”

“…Nurses and doctors, the first in line to provide life support and resuscitation, should always be clearly aware of the placement of the emergency cart and their contents and their use. 1 Hospital nurses encounter many in-hospital cardiac arrests that require them to respond immediately and to provide efficient competent care. [2][3][4] An emergency is a situation that possesses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment.…”