A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE (SIM) ON KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF INFECTION CONTROL STRATEGIES AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN LABOUR ROOM AT SELECTED MATERNITY HOSPITALS BANGALORE

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Background: Pregnancy and childbirth are the most important events of a women’s life. Pregnancy, delivery is a normal physiological process. Most of the time the women achieve normal pregnancy outcome without any complication. But too many mothers and children in the world are dying and suffering because of ill health, poor nutrition, and inadequate health care. Many of the deaths could be prevented using existing knowledge and affordable tools. Objectives:1). To assess the knowledge and practice of infection control strategies among staff nurses working in labour room, in terms of pretest knowledge and practice scores.2)To assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge and practice of infection control strategies among staff nurses by comparing the pre and post-test knowledge and practice score.3) To find the association between post-test knowledge and practice scores with their selected demographic variables of staff nurses.Methods:Pre-experimental one group pretest post-test design was adopted. In this study, the sample consists of 50 staff nurses working in labour room who fulfilled the inclusion criteria for the study.

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