Introduction:
Health care professionals are at high risk of getting infected by exposing to
infected blood, body fluids and contaminated droplets that can cause serious or
fatal infections. Nurses are repeatedly exposed to numerous infections during
their duties while carrying out nursing
Objectives of
the Study
1. To assess the existing
pretest knowledge and practice regarding PPE kit among staff nurses.
2. To deliver information
booklet on knowledge and practice regarding PPE kit.
3. To assess the
post-test knowledge and practice regarding PPE kit among staff nurses.
4. Correlate the
knowledge & practice regarding PPE kit among staff nurses.
5. To association between
pretest knowledge and practice with selected demographic variables among staff
nurses working in selected hospitals at selected city.
Material and Method:
Quasi experimental one group pre-test post-test research design was adopted for
this study. Convenient sampling method was used to select 80 samples from a
selected hospital. Demographic Performa, self-reported questionnaire and
practice checklist was used to collect the data from the subject. RESULT: The
data collected from 80 samples were analyzed by descriptive statistics. We have
taken pre-test and post-test of knowledge regarding PPE kit of staff nurses and
it was seen that in pre-test majority of samples 52.5% were having poor
knowledge, 47.5% were having average knowledge and none of them have good
knowledge. And in Post-test majority of samples 86.25% were having good
knowledge, 13.75% were having average knowledge and none of them have poor
knowledge. We observed for practice with the help of checklist, pre-test and
post-test practice of staff nurses and it was seen that in pre-test majority of
samples 65% were having average practice, 28.75% having poor practice and 6.25%
were having good practice. And in Post-test majority of samples 92.5%were
having good practice, 7.5% were having average practice and none of them have
poor practice.
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