“ Evaluate the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme regarding Basic Life Support (BLS) among Intern (B.Sc Nursing) Student at Selected Nursing College, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.”

Abstract

Heart disease is the world's largest killer claiming 17.5 million lives every year. About every 29 seconds, an Indian dies of heart problem. As many as 20,000 new heart patients develop every day. In India 9 crore Indian suffer from heart disease and 30% more are at high risk. Sudden Cardiac arrest is a major public health problem. Basic Life Support (BLS) is the provision of treatment designed to maintain adequate circulation and ventilation to the patient in cardiac arrest, without the use of drugs on specialist equipment.A structured knowledge questionnaire was prepared for the assessment of knowledge .Pre test was done on 1 st day and planned teaching program was given on same day. On day 7 th post test was done with same questionnaire. Post test knowledge score was more than pre test knowledge score. Pre test Mean-9.12, Median-9 SD-1.97 and Post test Mean-13.4, Median-13 SD-2.89."t"value was 13.9 which is greater than the tabulated value at (p= 0.001) level of significance and which highly significant. There is no significant association between the knowledge of student with age, gender and previous knowledge regarding Basic life support, as the Chi square value 0.46, 0.94 and 0.05 which is less than the tabulated value. There is significant association between the knowledge of students with the education qualification as the Chi square value is 1.04 which is more than the tabulated value at (p= 0.001) level of significance