A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Regarding Total Parenteral Nutrition on Knowledge and Practice Among Staff Nurses Working at Critical Care Unit, MGMCRI, At Puducherry

Abstract

Background: Adequate nutrition is vital for growth and development of children starting from conception to maturity. Almost all nutritional disorders like protein energy malnutrition, anaemia, rickets, and nutritional blindness occur in this age group. The early use of adequate parenteral nutrition minimizes weight loss, and improves growth and neurons developmental outcome, and appears to reduce the risk of mortality and later adverse outcomes, such as necrotizing enter colitis and bronco pulmonary dysplasia increased protein and energy intakes in the first week of life also are associated with improved neurodevelopment outcome. Objective: This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding total parenteral nutrition with objectives to assess the knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding total parenteral nutrition. To determine the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge and practice regarding total parenteral nutrition, and to associate the selected demographic variables with knowledge and practice regarding total parenteral nutrition. Method: The research design used for this study was quasi-experimental (one group pretest and post-test). 60 samples were selected through convenience sampling technique. Result: The investigator found that most of them 39 (65%) had inadequate knowledge, 21 (35%) had moderately adequate knowledge and none of them have adequate knowledge on total parenteral nutrition, where as in the post-test 46 (76.7%) had adequate knowledge, 14 (23.3%) had moderately adequate knowledge and none of them had inadequate knowledge respectively. Statistically significant difference (p<0.001) found in knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding total parenteral nutrition after video assisted teaching. The result of this study shows that there is an improvement in knowledge and practice of staff nurse after the video assisted teaching. The video assisted teaching plan prepared for this study will help the nurses to carry out the healthy practice. So, the critical care nurse has important role in teaching the total parenteral nutrition which enable them to prevent infection while administration.