A STUDY TO ASSESS THE PRACTICE LEVEL REGARDING NEEDLE STICK INJURY AMONG NURSING STUDENTS IN CHERRAAN’S COLLEGE OF NURSING AT COIMBATORE

Abstract

Statement of the problem

        A  study  to  assess  the  practice  level  regarding  needle  stick  injury  among  nursing  students  in  cherraan’s  college  of  nursing  at  Coimbatore  was  undertaken  by  a  group  of  students  in  partial  fulfillment  of  the  requirement  for  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Nursing   during  the  year  2022.

 Objectives of the study

• To assess the practice level to prevent needle stick injury among nursing students.
• To identify the association between selected variables such as age, sex, educational qualification, surgical details and knowledge and practice level among nursing students.

Research design and method

The  research  approach  adopted  for  the  study  was  qualitative  . The   conceptual  framework  adopted  for  the  present  study  was  based  on  general  adoption  system . The  data  was  collected  from  2^nd  year  B.Sc  Nursing  students  selected  by  non  probability  convenience   sampling  technique  to  assess  the  practice  level  regarding  needle  stick  injury  among  nursing  students.

Result

         Descriptive  statistical  methods  like  mean,  percentage,  standard deviation  and inferential  statistics  liked  ‘ t ‘  test  and  chi-square  was  used  to  analyze  the  collected data.

• The percentage distribution of students according to demographic variables, majority of them 25 (83.33%) were in the age of 19-20 years, 16 (53.33%) were in the gender of female, 11 (36.66%) were in the monthly income of >10k, 23 (76.66%) were in family type of nuclear family, 22 (73.33%) were in area of rural, 17 (56.66%) were in father occupational status of self employee, 13 (43.33%) were in mother occupational status of un employee, 22 (73.33%) were in father educational status of 1^o&2^o Education, 17 (56.66%) were in mother educational status of 1^o&2^o Education, 20 (66.66%) were in know about needle stick injury of yes, 27 (90%) were in previous needle stick injury of no.
• The pre-test mean level of knowledge score was 13.63 with SD of 2.08. After the intervention, the post-test mean level of knowledge score was 13.33 with SD of 2.58. The mean difference between the pre-test and post-test was 0.30. Paired t test was employed and the calculated t value was 1.08 which indicates the significant difference between pre-test and post-test level of knowledge score at 0.05 level. Hence, this finding shows that the practice has a significance effect in increasing the level of practice among practice level regarding Needle stick injury.

 Conclusion

• It was found that the main conclusion of the presents study status that in the pre-test, most of the students had adequate knowledge on needle stick injury. Effectiveness to improving in their knowledge. The study results show that there is significant association between the level of practice with their selected demographic variables. These the variables calculated by chi square test at p<0.05, therefore the investigator was proved the hypothesis is accepted for this study.