STUDY TO DETERMINE THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING EARLY AMBULATION OF POST OPERATIVE PATIENTS AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN SURGERY RELATED WARDS OF SELECTED HOSPITALS AT JAIPUR

Abstract

Introduction : The present study aims at determining the knowledge regarding early ambulation of post operative patients among staff nurses working in surgery related wards of selected hospital at Jaipur. The framework, of the present study is based on Kurt Lewin's Theory of Change (1951) The conceptual framework is consisting of three steps: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Material & Methods : The Research design used was two-group post test quasi- Experimental design; Convenient Sampling technique was used. The Sample was selected from the selected pre-operative,intra-operative,post-operative, ICU of hospitals. The samples consisted of 150 in control and 150 in experimental group that was selected as per criteria. A structured knowledge questionnaires regarding early ambulation of post operative patients was prepared to assess the knowledge of staff nurses working in surgery related wards. Results : In the pre-test, knowledge among staff nurses depicts that, majority of respondents (77.33%) had excellent knowledge scores,(22.67%) had good knowledge scores,(00.00%) had poor and average knowledge scores. At another, the pre-test knowledge among staff nurses depicts that, majority of respondents (70.67%) had poor knowledge scores,(29.33%) had average knowledge scores and none of the sample had not good and excellent knowledge score.