Lavanya, P (2018) A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge and Practice regarding Legal and Ethical Issues in care of children among Nurses working in Pediatric Wards at Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore, Chennai. Masters thesis, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai.
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Abstract
Nurses face legal issues daily. Those issues may be in connection to negligence, administering medication and advocating for the patient. If these duties and regulations are not followed, the nurse is at risk of losing his/her license and facing a malpractice suit. So Nursing professionals need to improve and update their knowledge in regards to legal and ethical principles and incorporate the knowledge in decision making in daily practice. TITLE: “A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and practice regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children among nurses working in Pediatric wards at Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore , Chennai-08”. OBJECTIVES: To assess the knowledge and practice regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme among nurses working in pediatric wards and to find out the association between the post-test knowledge and practice of nurses with selected socio demographic variables. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This study was conducted with 60 samples (Registered Nurses) in quantitative approach, Pre experimental one group pretest posttest design,sample selection was done by convenient sampling technique. Pre-existing knowledge was assessed by using semi Structured questionnaires. After the pre-test, Structured teaching programme was given regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children. After 7 days post-test was conducted by using same tool. RESULTS: The result shows in post test after structured teaching programme, Nurses were gained 32.88% knowledge score, 41.00% practice score more than Pretest score and the mean differences were 8.22 and 6.15 by using students paired t-test and Generalised McNemar’s. It is statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Hence, the structured teaching programme was instructionally effective, appropriate and feasible. It would help the nurses to prevent legal and ethical issues in care of the children.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | Reg.No.301616254 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Structured Teaching Programme, Knowledge, Practice, Legal and Ethical Issues, care of children, Nurses, Pediatric Wards. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2019 18:16 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2019 02:32 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/11615 |
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