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Effect of PTP on Knowledge of Staff Nurses for Safe Drug Administration in Pediatric Tuberculosis

Smriti Arora

Abstract


It is known that safe drug administration plays a very important role in the management of pediatric tuberculosis. The staff nurses being the core member of health team needs to be made aware of all the aspects of pediatric tuberculosis management especially drugs. The current study was conducted to assess the effect of a planned teaching programme (PTP) on knowledge of staff nurses regarding safe drug administration in pediatric tuberculosis. It was a quasi-experimental pre-test post-test study conducted on 40 staff nurses. 20 staff nurses in the experimental group were exposed to the educational intervention describing about the pediatric tuberculosis and safe drug administration and no intervention was given to control group. The educational intervention was significantly successful in improving the knowledge of staff nurses related to safe drug administration.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijpn.v3i2.381

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