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Quarterly published in print and online "Inventi Rapid: Nursing Research" publishes high quality unpublished as well as high impact pre-published research and reviews catering to the needs of researchers and professionals. The journal welcomes articles in all the nursing specialties including such areas as patient education, discharge planning, nursing diagnosis, nursing influence on length of hospital stay and nurse/physician collaboration.
Computer and internet has become a very popular means of communication in present days. Internet usage has the potential to develop and change the existing social structure of the nation. The essentiality of internet in certain course of study has increased the use of computer among students and makes them more susceptible to pathological use of internet. The present study was conducted to find association of internet addiction and psychosomatic symptoms among college students. A descriptive co-relational survey was conducted by using purposive sampling method and recruited 116 college students studying Bachelor of Computer Application. Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was used to assess level of internet addiction and depression, anxiety, stress scale (DASS-42) and somatic symptoms checklist was used to assess psychophysiological symptoms among students. Among 116 students, A large majority of subjects (51.72%) were between 17-19 year of age and 76 subjects (65.52%) were males and 40 (34.48%) were females participants. 5.17 % students experienced severe level of internet addiction. When the level of internet addiction was compared with socio-demographic variables of students. It shows that only medium of internet use (x2 = 8.10)* was significantly associated with internet addiction at 0.05 level of significance. The related findings enable us to be aware of the effects of internet usage, internet addiction tendency and associated psycho physiological symptoms. Students high in internet addiction are more vulnerable depression, anxiety, stresses and somatic complaints and psychologist and psychiatrist must be aware to suggest the appropriate therapeutic interventions timely....
Childbirth is one of the most memorable and rewarding event of the couples life. No matter how often a woman gives birth, each experience is an intimate and unique celebration of life. As we know the unexpected can happen at any time, women may not always be able to control every aspect of labor and delivery. In India the estimated cases of intranatal complication are 45% and there are maternity mortality rate as 441 per 1000,000 live birth. Intranatal period is the very important part of the chid birth, so keeping this as an important part the present study was conducted to assess the knowledge of nurses regarding intranatal care. Tool was developed in the form of questions with three options. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Descriptive method was used for present study and the setting was Government hospital of Rewa. The technique of sampling was purposive sampling technique. During pilot study 10 nurses were taken as sample at Rewa. Reliability and validity was done with the help of many experts. Maximum 51.66% of staff nurses got average score, (41%-60%) and minimum 1.66% of staff nurses obtained very poor score (up 6%) and 35% of staff nurse have poor knowledge regarding intranatal care (21-40) and mean knowledge score of staff nurses regarding intranatal care was 14 and standard deviation was 3.36....
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children in a selected high school at Kollam district. The objectives of the study was to assess the level of knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children and to find out the association between pretest knowledge scores regarding substance abuse among high school children with selected demographic variables. A quantitative pre experimental one group pretest posttest design was used. Using non probability purposive sampling 50 samples were selected. The mean posttest knowledge score 23.42 with standard deviation 4.50 was significantly higher than the mean pretest knowledge score 15.94 with standard deviation 3.71.The result of the study shows that there was improvement in the knowledge of the high school children after conducting the structured teaching programme and thus structured teaching programme was statistically significant at 0.001 level (t=10.5, p<0.001). There was no significant association between mean pretest knowledge scores with selected demographic variables. Hence the study suggested that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of the high school children regarding substance abuse....
College related factors affect both the physical and psychological potentials of an individual due to inadequate stimulation. The college related factors includes college environment, classroom, location, instructional facilities in college, climate and technology and teacher-student relationship etc. The aim of the study was to determine the college related factors affecting the performance of undergraduate nursing students studying in selected nursing colleges Maharashtra. A descriptive research design was used to assess college related factors of undergraduate nursing students. 50 undergraduate nursing students were selected from selected nursing colleges Maharashtra. The findings shows that the majority of nursing students 32 (64 %) were male and 18 (36%) were female, 37 (74 %) belonged to age group of 19-20 years, 17 (54%) were from middle social economical class, 22(44%) had one sibling. majority students 29 (58%) obtained percentages in 12th standard was 40 – 60% and 16 (32 %) percentage in first year BSc nursing was less than 50%. There was significant association between college related factors with gender (0.046) and percentage in 12th (0.046) was observed. No significant association between college related factors with age (0.146), medium for instruction in 12th standard (0.889), socioeconomic class of family (0.316), number of siblings (0.991), percentage of BSc nursing first year (0.054) were found....
Community health nurse priority must be addressed in an environment of constrained resources. Florence nightingale demonstrated to the world the important role of nurses on the front lines of war-related disaster. No single discipline, agency, organization or jurisdiction can or should claim sole responsibility for the complex array of challenges associated with the disaster, whether caused by nature, humans, or some combination of both. Community health nurse play an integral role in meeting the national preparedness goal, a part of the national preparedness system: “A secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk (FEMA, 2013).” Nursing and specifically, Community Health Nursing practice must remain a constant across the national planning framework and its disaster cycle of preparedness (prevention, protection and mitigation), response and recovery. The recognition of Community Health Nurse population-based skills in times of disaster is an extremely important part of our national capacity for response. Community health nurse should not be simply viewed as acute care (i.e., hospital) replacements or first responder extenders (e.g., triage personnel) in a mass casualty environment. This is not to say that community health nurse cannot do these functions if educated. Indeed, all health professionals may be called upon to expand in non-routine practice areas during a catastrophic response. Above all, though, in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, community health nurse are better used for services they do best, namely population based practice like rapid needs assessments of communities impacted by the incident, population-based triage, mass dispensing of preventive or curative therapies, community education, providing care or managing shelters for displaced populations and of course, provision of ongoing continuity in essential public health services....
This study aimed to examine the effect of mindfulness meditation in reduction of anxiety and stress among nursing students. A pre experimental one group pretest and posttest design was used. The samples for this study consisted of 30 first year baccalaureate nursing students collected by using convenience sampling technique. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Study was conducted at Carmel college of Nursing Aluva, Kerala for two weeks. Among 30 students, 86.7% were between 17-19 years of age and all students were females. About 83.3 % belonged to Christian religion and 93.3% were from nuclear family. Majority, 79% of students had mild anxiety. Mild to moderate, moderate and severe anxiety were noted among 7% of students each. The student’s anxiety level showed a significant difference in the pre-test and post test anxiety scores after mindfulness intervention (t = 0.00000361). The pretest level of anxiety was present in all students from mild to severe but in posttest it was decreased to from severe to mild in majority of students. Therefore it is concluded that the mindfulness meditation was effective in reducing anxiety in nursing students. It is very important for nurse educators to help nursing students manage their stress and anxiety in order to prevent additional problems....
A quantitative study was conducted to assess the effect of self-instructional module regarding knowledge of digitalis therapy among staff nurses working in a selected hospital at Kollam district. The objectives of the study were to assess the pre-test knowledge regarding digitalis therapy among staff nurses, to evaluate the effect of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding digitalis therapy, to find the association between pre-test knowledge of staff nurses regarding digitalis therapy and the selected demographic variables. Probability simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 staff nurses for the study. The tools used for data collection were demographic data, structured knowledge questionnaire and self-instructional module. The mean post-test knowledge score 47.6 with standard deviation 2.4 was significantly higher than the mean pre-test knowledge 20.6 with standard deviation 5.8. The study showed that there was improvement in the knowledge of staff nurses after implementing self-instructional module and thus self-instructional module was statistically significant at 0.01 level (t=33.83, p<0.00). There was a significant association between pre -test knowledge regarding digitalis therapy and age (x2=1.32, p=0.251). Hence the study suggested that self-instructional module was effective in improving the knowledge of staff nurses regarding digitalis therapy....
A quantitative research study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of PDCA module on the knowledge regarding life style modifications on COVID 19 pandemic among health professionals in a selected hospital at Kollam. The objectives of the study were to assess the pre – test knowledge score of health professionals regarding the life style modifications on Covid 19 pandemic, to evaluate the effectiveness of PDCA module on knowledge regarding life style modifications on Covid 19 pandemic, to find out the association between the pre test knowledge score regarding life style modifications on Covid 19 pandemic with selected demographic variables of health professionals. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used to select 30 staff nurses for the research study. The tools used for the data collection were demographic proforma, structured knowledge questionnaire and structured teaching programme. The mean post test score 18. 36 with the standard deviation 1.77 was significantly higher than the mean pre test knowledge score 13.36 with the standard deviation 2.25. The null hypothesis (H0) is accepted. This showed that there was improvement in the knowledge of staff nurses after the implementation of structured teaching programme. And thus the PDCA module was statistically significant at 0.05 level (t = 12.20, P = 0.009). There was a significant association between pretest knowledge regarding the lifestyle modifications on Covid 19 pandemic with selected demographic variables of health professionals. Hence the study suggested that the PDCA module was effective in improving the knowledge on prevention of COVID 19 pandemic....
In the present study, data were collected on knowledge regarding management of hospital acquired infections in children. The objective of the study was to identify the knowledge of B.Sc nursing students regarding the management of hospital acquired infections in children and to determine the association between post-test knowledge scores with selected demographic variables. The research method adopted for this study was the evaluative approach. The research design adopted for this study was a pre-experimental design with one group pretest and post-test design. A simple random technique was used to select the sample for the study. The sample consists of 60 B.Sc nursing students of nursing institutions. The instrument used for the data collection is a structured questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study showed that the pretest overall knowledge score regarding various aspects of management of Hospital Acquired infections in children was a mean percentage of 46.86% and SD was 3.51. During the post–the test overall knowledge score was 80.53% and SD was 2.98. Hence the difference between pretest and post-test over a knowledge score was 33.67. The results show that the difference between the pretest and post-test knowledge scores for the management of hospital acquired infections in children is statistically significant and this difference is due to planned teaching program in the management of hospital acquired infections in children. The conclusion was drawn on the basis of the following findings of the study. This study shows that there was a significant improvement in the knowledge of management of infections in children among B.Sc nursing students as evidenced and post-test knowledge scores....
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