Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: September | Volume: 10 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 441-446
A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding MRSA among Staff Nurses at SGRD Hospital Vallah, Amritsar
Kiranpreet Kaur1, Akashpreet Kaur2
1,2Assistant Professor, SGRD College of Nursing, Amritsar, Punjab
Corresponding Author: Kiranpreet Kaur
ABSTRACT
Antibiotic resistant bacteria have become the source of medicine and nursing particularly in the hospital setting. One of the most troublesome bacterial strain is MRSA.MRSA infection can lead to death predominantly in hospitalised debilitated patients. Methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus rose to prominence when centre for disease control and prevention report published in journal of American Medical Association estimated that nearly 19000 people had died of MRSA infection in 2005. A pre experimental study was conducted to assess effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding MRSA among staff nurses at SGRD Hospital Vallah, Amritsar. 50 staff nurses were selected by using purposive sampling technique.Questionnaire method was used to assess the knowledge. The tool containing demographic profile and self structured knowledge questionnaire was given and post-test data was collected. Results reveals that pre-test mean with SD was 13.60±4.768 and post-test mean and SD was 22.18±6.439 using paired t-test (t=7.856 at p=0.05). The result indicates that structured teaching programme on MRSA was effective and shows significant improvement in post-test knowledge among staff nurses on MRSA.
Key words: Methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus, Preexperimental study