Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge of Staff Nurses Regarding Post Coronary Angiography Care

Abstract

Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of death in India. It has quadrupled in the last 40 years and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2020 close to 60% of cardiac patients worldwide will be Indian. Coronary angiography is currently regarded as the gold standard technique for evaluation of patients with suspected coronary heart disease and for defining coronary anatomy. Nurses are the key persons who play a vital role in post coronary angiography patients. When caring for the patients, it is essential to ensure that all aspects of nursing care are evidence based so that the nurses can perform safe and accountable practice. Adequate knowledge and skills for care of patient after coronary angiography is expected from all the nurses to reduce complications. Keeping this in view, the present study was conducted to assess and improve the knowledge of staff nurses on post coronary angiography care. The objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on post coronary angiography care among staff nurses. The study was quantitative in nature with pre-experimental research design. Convenience sampling technique was used to recruit 50 staff nurses working in the Silver Oaks Multispecialty Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India. A semistructured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of study subjects and the findings of the study include the pretest and posttest mean knowledge score of the study subjects, which were 14.4 and 21.08 with standard deviation 3.3 and 4.38, respectively. The range was 17 (28–11) and t value 12.32. The results revealed that there was increase in the knowledge of the study subjects after the implementation of structured teaching program. It also concluded that knowledge of the study subjects was only associated with the professional qualification whereas all the other variables, such as age, gender, work experience, etc., were found nonsignificant. Hence, it was concluded that the structured teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge of the staff nurses on post coronary angiography care.

Keywords: structured teaching program, knowledge, staff nurses, post coronary angiography care