ABSTRACT

Background of the study: Oxygen is an indispensable element of life; its deficiency has deleterious consequences to all organs of the human body leading eventually to cell dysfunction and death. Supplemental oxygen helps to forestall hypoxemia issues; once inappropriately directed, the patient can go over the danger of hypoxemia, respiratory brokenness even passing. Supplemental oxygen is a lifesaving treatment in emergency conditions and is commonly used as a therapeutic agent in emergency and ICU departments at health care institutions of majorly at tertiary level hospitals. Therefore, researcher intended to organize this study to assess knowledge, attitude And practice of nurses regarding oxygen therapy. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of self- instructional module regarding oxygen therapy in terms of knowledge, attitude and practice among nurses working in emergency and intensive care unit department of selected hospital of Vadodara, Gujarat. Material and method: A Quantitative approach is used. A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test research design was opted. The study was conducted over staff nurses working in emergency and ICU units of hospitals of Vadodara. 100 sample sizes were selected through non-probability Purposive Sampling Technique. Effectiveness of self-instructional module was assessed Result: It was divulged through the findings that the self-instructional module found significantly effective to enhance theknowledge, attitude and practice level of staff nurses regarding oxygen therapy. onclusion: The study findings observed that provided self- instructional module enhancing staff nurse’s knowledge, improved their attitude and fining their practice standard towards oxygen therapy. Therefore, researcher further recommended that such specific module should be created and kept in emergency and ICU unit, so that the staff will take an appropriate action towards oxygen therapy kind of life- saving process. Keywords: Self-Instructional Module, Oxygen therapy, Staff Nurse, ICU, Emergency
Publication date: 15/12/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.12.1044