“A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Procedure of Sterilization in Operation Theatre Among Students in Selected Nursing Institution of Pune City.”

Abstract

Title:-“A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding procedure of sterilization in operation theatre among students in selected nursing institution of Pune city”.

Objectives:-1.To assess knowledge regarding procedures of sterilization in operation theatre among nursing students. 2. To find association of the study between the knowledge with selected demographic variables.

Materials and Methodology: Non experimental descriptive research design was adopted. The approach of this research is quantitative. The sample size was 200. The sampling technique was non-probability purposive sampling technique. The inclusion criteria for the research include students whose age is between 17-25yrs, students of 2nd year GNM, 2nd year BSC and 3rd year BSC nursing students and exclusion criteria include students who were truanted during the time of data collection. Samples were compiled from selected nursing schools of Pune city. A self- constructed questionnaire involving demographic variables and a set of 30 questions were provided to each sample.

Result:  Majority of sample 69.5 % had average knowledge, 28.5% samples had poor knowledge and only 2% sample had good knowledge regarding procedures of sterilization in O.T. Mean value computed as 12.89 and S.D as 3.98. Chi-square test was used to find out the significance with demographic variables. There is no significance was found with the selected demographic variables as the obtained p values were greater than 0.05.

Conclusion: Analysis revealed that the nursing students of the selected nursing institutions of Pune city had average knowledge regarding procedure of sterilization in O.T.