Journal of Emergency and Trauma Nursing

Cardiovascular disease is the world’s largest killer. Nurses are often the first to activate life support measures when a cardio-respiratory arrest happens. Hence, they should be well-equipped with knowledge and skills of Cardiopulmonary resuscitation to save the life of patient. The aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge and practice of basic life support among nursing officers working in tertiary care hospital, Delhi, India. A cross sectional survey analysis was carried out among 112 nursing officers working in various departments, in March 2019, using convenient sampling technique. A semi structured questionnaire containing knowledge and skill items were used to assess knowledge and skill related to CPR. The results showed average knowledge and poor skill among subjects. Whereas the subjects working in ICU and emergency departments had better knowledge and performance than other selected areas. Both Knowledge and skill were significantly associated with variables like clinical area, in-service training on BLS at p < 0.05. The results strongly recommend the need for regular basic life support training sessions for health care professionals.

Good food hygiene is an important practice that we need to observe to ensure our food is safe for consumption, without this healthy practice, harmful germs that cause food poisoning can spread very easily during food preparation process, it is their for our full responsibility to keep the food that we and our loved ones it very clean and safe during and after preparation on a daily basis. The increasing number of food poisoning outbreak sand food-related scares has led to calls for better hygiene and quality practices. Food poisoning outbreaks are due to the inadequate time and temperature control of food. Poor sanitary practices in food storage, handling, and preparation can create an environment which bacteria such as campylobacters, salmonella, and other infectious agents are more easily transmitted. The spread of diseases through food is still a common problem which results in appreciable morbidity and occasional mortality. Food handlers play an important role in ensuring food safety throughout the chain of production, processing, storage and preparation. This article explores the evidence base of knowledge regarding the food hygiene among the mothers of nursing students. The result of the study shows that the majority of nursing student’s mothers 69 (69%) had adequate knowledge, 21 (21%) had excellent knowledge and 10 (10%) had inadequate knowledge regarding food hygiene. The result of structured knowledge questionnaire will classify nursing student’s mother in good, average, poor knowledge categories. Mothers of nursing students having adequate knowledge would continue with health promotive behaviour whereas the mothers of nursing students having inadequate knowledge have to improve their health related knowledge.

A descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding premenstrual syndrome of adolescent girls from selected schools of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The main objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding PMS of adolescent girls from selected schools of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The ‘General System Model’ adopted from Ludwig Von Bertalanaffy was used as the conceptual frame work. A quantitative approach with descriptive study design was used to achieve the objective of the study. The samples consisted of 150 students of selected schools of Ahmedabad. The simple random sampling technique was use to collect the sample. A structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge and attitude scale was used to assess attitude regarding premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls. The tool was validated by the experts. Cronbach alpha was used to establish the reliability of tools. The tool was found to be valid and reliable. Data gathered was analyzed and interpreted using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study shows 15.5% adolescent girls having adequate, 81% adolescent girls having average and 3.5% having inadequate amount of knowledge regarding premenstrual syndrome and 55.5% adolescent girls having good attitude, 44.5% adolescent girls having average attitude and no participant having poor attitude regarding premenstrual syndrome. There was positive co-relation between knowledge and attitude regarding premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls. Based on the findings the following recommendations were proposed for the future research: A similar study can be replicated on a large sample with the similar baseline characteristics.

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD for short) occurs when permanent blockages form within the pulmonary system that interfere with the transfer of vital gasses. There are two underlying disorders that can cause COPD: Emphysema and chronic Bronchitis. Incentive spirometer is a type of bronchial hygiene therapy. This helps to increase the inhaled lung volume, improve in get rid of mucus or secretions and to avoid serious lung infections in COPD patients. Objectives: (1) To assess the level of dyspnea and pulmonary functions before and after the use of incentive spirometer among COPD patients. (2) To evaluate the effectiveness of incentive spirometer between experimental and control group. (3) To findout the association between selected demographic variables and the levels of dyspnea and pulmonary functions in the experimental group after using incentive spirometer. Materials and Methods: Quasi–experimental Pretest – Post-test Control Group design were used. Non-probability purposive sampling technique used. The sample size for this study was fourty COPD patients out of which 20 patients were considered as Control group and another 20 patients as Experimental group. Results: The obtained Paired ‘t’ test value for the experimental group is 21.5 was markedly significant at p < 0.01 level whereas in the control group there was no significant difference found (t = 1.94, p = 0.06) and also there is significant difference noted in the pulmonary parameters (p = 0.01) between experimental and control group after using incentive spirometer. Conclusion: The study proved that incentive spirometer is effective in improving pulmonary functions of COPD patients.

Pre-experimental study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding importance of antioxidant in reducing risk related to heart attack among middle age group people in selected urban areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The study was conducted among middle age group people and selected areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The main objective of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of information booklet regarding importance of antioxidant in reducing risk related to heart attack among middle age group people in selected urban areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The ‘General system model’ was used as the conceptual framework. A quantitative approach with experimental study design was used to achieve the objective of the study. The samples consisted of 30 middle age people in selected urban areas of Ahmedabad. The purposive sampling technique was used to collect the sample. A structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge regarding importance antioxidants in reducing risk related to heart attack among middle age people in selected urban areas of Ahmedabad. Data gathered was analyzed and interpreted using both experimental and inferential statistics. The mean and SD on concept mapping in pretest was 7.53 and 4.956, whereas the mean and SD of post test was 14.76 and 6.67. the calculated ‘t’ value was greater than tabulated ‘t’ value. Hence the null hypothesis was rejected and the research hypothesis was accepted. The result shows that when information booklet was given to middle age people, they achieve the best scores. This study therefore, offers an encouraging solution towards improvement of middle age people’s performance regarding importance of antioxidants.

A true experimental study was conducted to assess the knowledge of adults regarding ill effects of self-medication. The study was conducted in partial fulfillment for the award of degree of B.Sc. Nursing at Apollo Institute of Nursing, Gandhinagar. 30 adults were chosen as samples for conducting the study. The main objective of study was to assess the knowledge regarding ill effect of self-medication among adult’s in selected areas of Ahmedabad, before and after provision of planned teaching program. A structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of people in order to achieve the objective of the study. Data gathered from the survey was analyzed and interpreted using true experimental study. The mean of knowledge regarding ill effects of self-medicationamong adults inpretest is 13.23 whereas the mean of posttest, after the planned teaching programme was administered came to be 19.8. The calculated ‘t’ value was 8.09262 and 3.83 for the study conducted. Hence there was no evidence against null hypothesis. The result strongly suggests that adults were well acquainted with the knowledge regarding ill effects of selfmedicationafter the provision of planned teaching programme.

Context: MEWS score is a simple, physiological score that may allow improvement in the quality and safety of management provided to patients. Aims: The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on level of knowledge regarding MEWS score among student nurses. Methods and Material: The research design used in this study was one group pre-test and post-test Pre experimental design and conducted in selected Nursing College, Amritsar. Convenient sampling technique was used to select 30 student nurses. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to before and after structured teaching program. Statistical Analysis used: Collected data were coded, tabulated and analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Majority of the student nurses participated in the study belonged to 21–22 years of age (46.7%), Sikh religion (56.7%) and from rural area (56.6%). Most of the student nurses had monthly income of `10001–15000/- (43.3%) and got knowledge from multimedia (70%). The study findings revealed that in pre-test majority of the student nurses (53.3%) had inadequate knowledge whereas in post-test majority (56.7%) had adequate knowledge regarding MEWS score. The mean score was 6.80 in pre-test and 15.53 in post-test. The ‘t’ value 11.25 which was highly significant at 0.01 level. Hence hypothesis (H1) is accepted. There was no significant association between posttest knowledge score with selected demographic variables of student nurses. Conclusions: Based on statistical findings, it is evident that the provision of structured teaching programon MEWS score has increased the knowledge of student nurses.