PRE-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATION OF SELECTED INOTROPIC DRUGS AMONG THE STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITAL KASHMIR

Nowadays we are observing there are enough number of cardiovascular patients and also day by day their ratio is getting increased at huge number because Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year. Cardiovascular diseases are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels and include coronary heart disease and other conditions. Four out of five deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes and one third of these deaths occur prematurely in people under 70 years of age. Individual at risk may demonstrate raised blood pressure, glucose, and lipids as well as overweight and obesity. These can all be easily measured in primary care facilities. Identifying those at high risk of cardiovascular diseases and ensuring they receive appropriate treatment and can prevent premature deaths. For those conditions inotropic drugs play a vital role in rehablitating the cardiovascular disease patients. Inotropic state is most commonly used in reference to various drugs that affect the strength of contraction of heart muscle. Inotropic drugs are the medicines that change the force of hearts contractions. There are two kinds of inotropes namely positive which strengthen the force of heart beat and negative inotropes which weaken the force of heartbeat. So inotropic drugs are the commonly drugs used to treat cardiovascular conditions. Therefore in view of this pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test research design study was conducted to as assess the effectiveness of a structured teaching program on knowledge regarding the administration of inotropic drugs among the staff nurses in selected hospital of Kashmir for which 60 subjects were selected by simple random sampling technique. After data collection structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge among subjects. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics by using chi-square and t-test. The findings revealed that in posttest majority of the study subjects 6(10%) had excellent knowledge, 53(88.3%) had good knowledge, 1(1.7%) had average and none had below average knowledge with posttest mean score 26.15 standard deviation 3.019 with mean percentage 63.78 and mean difference 12.97. Study concludes that null hypothesis was rejected because there was gain in knowledge among staff nurses after imparting structured teaching programme. The study also concluded that null hypothesis was accepted because there was statistically no significant association between selected variable (professional qualification, working experience, place of posting, and in-service education programme attended) at p> 0.001 of staff nurses with their pre-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance.