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A STUDY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF SELF INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE REGARDING KNOWLEDGE ON PATIENT SAFETY MEASURES AMONG STAFF NURSES IN SRM GENERAL HOSPITAL, KATTANKULATHUR, TAMIL NADU, INDIA

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R. Shenbagam, D. Siva shanmugam, Dr. T. Suseelal, Dr. C. Kanniammal
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s2.127

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Globally patient safety is one of the important aspect of nursing care. Inspite of expert treatment and care at times medical errors and patient falls and injuries are reported. The present study aims to assess the knowledge of staff nurses in SRM general hospital on patient safety measures and planned to educate them with self instructional module on areas of inpatient care in hospital. A Single blinded quantitative experimental descriptive research design was used in this study. After decision from expert committee and explaining and getting consent by convenient sampling technique pre knowledge on patient safety was assessed with 30 self structured objective type questions among 100 staff nurses. Patient safety on medication errors, patient falls and injuries, prevention of infection was explained to the staff nurses and a module was given to the staff nurses. After 3 days post test was done with same questionnaire. The result revealed in the pre test 16% of the staff nurses had good knowledge and in post test 89% of staff nurses had excellent level of knowledge on patient safety issues. The pre mean value was 11.29 with SD 3.65, and the post test mean value was 25.79 with SD 2.43.The study was found significant with P<0.01. The study concluded that there was improvement in the staff nurses knowledge on patient safety measures and the hypothesis formulated was proved.

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