Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on Knowledge regarding patient Safety among 2nd and 3rd year Nursing students of AIIMS Raipur

Abstract

Background: Patient Safety is “The prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care” and “To do no harm to patients. In the newspapers and other social medias, we are coming across the medical errors that are happening frequently which are not only affecting patient’s life and suffering of their families but also create a disturbance in life of medical staffs both emotionally and financially. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge regarding Patient Safety among 2nd and 3rd year nursing students of AIIMS Raipur. Methodology: Quantitative research approach and pre-experimental (one group pre-test post-test) design was adopted. The conceptual framework of the study was Modified Imogene King’s Goal Attainment Model. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample with sample size of 120. The Data was collected using H-PEPSS tool. Findings: The mean score of pre-test is 101.1 and mean score of post-test is 164.6 and the mean improvement in knowledge is 63.5. The paired t-value was 27.5 significant at p <0.05 level of significance. Thus it indicates the effectiveness of educational intervention programme regarding Patient Safety among 2nd and 3rd year nursing student of AIIMS Raipur. Conclusion: In the post-test there is significant increase in level of knowledge as compared to the pre-Test level of Knowledge. Therefore, it concluded that the educational intervention was effective in improving the knowledge among 2nd and 3rd year nursing students regarding patient safety.