A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON TIME OUT PROCEDURE PROTOCOL ON KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REGARDING PATIENT SAFETY AMONG OPERATING ROOM NURSES AT SELECTED HOSPITALS, RAJKOT.

Author Name: 1. Chinju Verghese Kannanaickal B

Volume/Issue: 05/04

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2024-98958589/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Professor Cum HOD Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Smt Mital Y Patel Mahila Nursing College, Atkot, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

ABSTRACT

Background: Patient safety is a discipline that emphasize safety culture in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analyzing of medical and surgical error that often leads to adverse effects. Aim and Objective: To assess and compare the effectiveness of time out procedure protocol on knowledge and skill regarding patient safety among operating room nurses. Methodology: A Pre - experimental pre-test post-test design and a Quantitative approach was adopted to assess the effectiveness of time out procedure protocol on knowledge and skill regarding patient safety among 100 operating room (OR) nurses (50) each in Study Group and control group, who were working as a OR nurse holds > 6 months of working experience at the study group was KDP hospital, Atkot & Kotadiya Hospital Jasdan, and for the control group was Krishna hospital and Sreeram Hospital, Gondal.. Lottery method was used to divide the setting. Need assessment was performed and OR nurses who scored ≥ 3/6 and who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria using non - probability purposive sampling technique were selected as samples. Timeout procedure protocol was administered and the level of knowledge and skill was assessed by using structured knowledge questionnaire and observational checklist. Results: The study findings revealed that the post test mean knowledge score was 21.24 with SD of 3.57 in study group and 14.78 with SD of 1.72 in control group, and their post test mean skill score was 11.24 with SD of 2.18 in study group and 3.79 with SD. 1.97 in control group. The calculated student independent ‘t’ value (9.54 and 11.78) for knowledge and skill among the Study Group and control group. indicates that there was a very high statistical significance at p<0.001.

Key words: Structured Teaching Programme, Time Out Procedure Protocol, Patient Safety, Operating Room Nurses