A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of an Information Booklet on Knowledge Regarding the Intra Hospital Transport Protocol for Critically Ill Patient among GNM 3rd Year Students

Intrahospital transports for critically ill adult patients is necessary when diagnostic examinations are not possible to be performed at the patients bedside and also when critically ill patients have to be transferred from different departments to intensive care unit and vice versa. Lack or change of care and movement can cause serious complications for seriously all patients and can indange their health. The contribution of nurses is the foremost role in reducing transport related complexity. Intra hospital transportation is to be done in order that patients get the right services with specialized medical personnel and prevent complications and adequate monitoring. The purpose of the study was to assess effectiveness of an information booklet and existing level of pre test and post test knowledge regarding the intra hospital transport protocol for critically in patient. In this study quasi experimental one group pre test and post test design was adopted. Total 45 GNM 3rd year students of Integral college was selected by convenient sampling technique. Total 25 questionnaires were constructed used for data collection to assess the knowledge regarding intra hospital transport of critically ill patients. The data was tabulated and analyzed in terms of objective of the study, using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result revealed that the majority of the participants were females 35 78 had been involved and 44 sample were having good knowledge, 49 sample were having fair knowledge and 7 of them had poor knowledge. There were significant difference between pre test 10.07±3.61 and post test knowledge scores 15.51±4.76 at p value of 0.001. The study was undertaken to assess the knowledge regarding intra hospital transport protocol of critically ill patients among nursing students working in critical area and found that the majority of nursing students are having fair knowledge of intra hospital transport protocol of critically ill patients. Anchal Gupta | Reema Gupta | Monika Chaudhary | Shamshul Zama | Khan Sameer | Dilip Kushwaha | Deepak Dutt | Arti Verma | Dhanya Shukla | Anjali Shukla | Pragya Awasthi "A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of an Information Booklet on Knowledge Regarding the Intra Hospital Transport Protocol for Critically Ill Patient among GNM 3rd Year Students" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd45045.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/45045/a-study-to-assess-the-effectiveness-of-an-information-booklet-on-knowledge-regarding-the-intra-hospital-transport-protocol-for-critically-ill-patient-among-gnm-3rd-year-students/anchal-gupta