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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Registered Staff Nurses on Intramuscular Injection with A View to Prepare a Self-Instruction Module in a Selected Hospital of Pune City
Abstract
The study was aimed to assess the knowledge attitude and practice of staff nurses of administering intramuscular injection with a view to prepare and validate the self-instruction module (SIM) on sites and techniques of intramuscular injections. Research approach used was descriptive, exploratory survey approach. The study sample comprised of 100 samples, i.e. 34, and 66 samples from degree
Aand diploma in nursing, respectively, through a stratified random sampling technique. Data collection was done by using structured knowledge questionnaire, attitude scale and practice checklist. Results showed that majority of the staff were having poor level of knowledge, nurses have poor level of knowledge in both strata degree and diploma wise. Majority of the staff nurses had favorable attitude towards the intramuscular injections;, this has shown that the nurses were ready to accept newer recommendation, and at the same time, want to update themselves with current practices. It was also beconcluded that majority of the staff nurses have shown poor level of performance, and site -selection -related performance score was very poor . There was no significant correlation observed between knowledge and performance of staff nurses. There is no significant correlation between knowledge and practice of staff nurses. There was a slight positive correlation between attitude and performance. It shows if the attitude of staff nurses is favorable towards Iintramuscular injection, but their level of performance is poor. Though their attitude towards Iintramuscular injection was favourable, their level of performance was poor.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijncc.v5i2.1278
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