A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LEARNING PACKAGE ON MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PERMANENT PACEMAKER (PPM) AMONG NURSES WORKING IN HEART FOUNDATION AT KLES DR. PRABHAKAR KORE HOSPITAL AND MRC, BELGAUM, KARNATAKA

Abstract

Background:- The heart is one of the few truly vital organs. Disorders related to the heart are currently the leading cause of death throughout the world, cardiovascular diseases account for 12 millions deaths annually world wide.  In India it is estimated that at least 700,000 people die of heart attacks every year. About 4 out of every 10 patients die after getting heart attacks, mostly within one hour before medical aid can reach them. Today cardiovascular nursing has come to occupy an important place in this sphere of modern nursing. Therefore, to develop a generation of nurses that are efficient and skillful in their practice, the investigator concludes that the only means to achieve this goal is a learning package for the contemporary nurses on care of patients with permanent pacemaker.

AIM: The study aim to evaluate the effectiveness of learning package on management of patients with permanent pacemaker (PPM) among nurses working in heart foundation at KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and MRC, Belgaum, Karnataka.

METHODOLOGY:  A pre experimental, one group pre test and post test design Evaluative approach was utilized for the study. Non probability, purposive sampling technique technique was used to select sample size of 46 staff nurses. The self structured knowledge questionnaire and practice checklist was developed and utilized for data collection.

RESULT: During pre test out of 46 staff nurses three (6.52%) nurses had good knowledge, 42 (91.30%) staff nurses had average knowledge and one (1.78%) had poor knowledge. After the introduction of learning package, there was a  remarkable gain in knowledge 46 (100%) while not a single staff nurse had poor knowledge. Paired ‘t’ test value of 3.65 revealed that there is a significant gain in knowledge score of staff nurses after introducing the learning package at 0.05 level of significance.

CONCLUSION: Overall pretest knowledge about management of patients with permanent pacemaker was average There was a need for learning package for nurses on management of patient with PPM. Post test results showed significant improvement in the level of knowledge on management of patient with PPM. Thus, is can be concluded that learning package is an effective method of teaching staff nurses to increase the level of knowledge about management of patients with PPM. The pre test study revealed no relation between gain in knowledge and socio-demographic variables of nurses.