Abstract

Background: Being at the heart of the health care delivery is an enormous challenge for nurses, but it is also a golden opportunity to save the life of the patient. A high level of knowledge and skill of CPR is expected for all nurses to save the life of the victims who had cardiac arrest.According to the American heart association estimated that in the world among the incidence of death due to cardiac arrest varies between 0.2 to 0.4 percent per year. WHO estimates that 60% of the world’s cardiac patients will be Indian by 2015 Cardiovascular disease related to deaths in India occur below the age group of below 70 compared with just 20% in the west. Aims and Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge and skill regarding BLS among B.Sc(N) I & II year students. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and skill regarding BLS among B.Sc(N) students. 3. To find out the association between knowledge and skill among B.Sc (N) I & II year students with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: A quantitative research approach with a pre-experimental onegroup pre-test and post-test design was adopted. The study was conducted in venkateswara nursing college, Thalambur, Chennai, among 72 students among B.Sc(N) I&II year selected through non probability convenient sampling. Results: Significant improvement was observed in post-test scores (p < 0.05), indicating the effectiveness of the teaching module. Post-test knowledge levels showed a statistically significant difference in level of knowledge and skill on BLS. Conclusion: The findings suggest that a planned teaching programme significantly improves knowledge and skill among B.Sc (N) I&II year students. Implementing similar for other field of students,police man, fire workers.

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