International Journal of Practical Nursing

Aims & Objective: Home health care services are increasingly recognized as a viable and necessary alternative to institutionalized care, particularly in the face of an aging population, rising chronic disease burden, and escalating healthcare costs. Material: This attitudinal survey, conducted among 60 participants including patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals explores perceptions of home health care in relation to its convenience, cost-effectiveness, emotional impact, and challenges. Results: Indicated that 80% of patients reported satisfaction with home-based care, while 85% of caregivers found it more convenient than institutional care. However, quality of care (45%) and caregiver burden (35%) emerged as significant concerns. Additionally, socio-demographic factors such as income, age, and education were found to influence attitudes, with more favourable perceptions among older, higher-income, and better-educated individuals. Conclusion: These findings align with previous studies emphasizing the benefits of personalized, patient-centred home care, while also highlighting the ongoing need for robust training, resource allocation, and policy development to ensure equitable access and quality assurance in home-based healthcare. This research underscores the transformative potential of home health care and calls for strengthened support systems to address its limitations.

Background: Conducted a study on “contribution of smoking air pollution exposures in urban areas to social differences in respiratory health”, identified that socio economic status, smoking, and exposure to increased levels of environmental air pollution are associated with adverse effects on respiratory health. Objectives: 1 To assess the existing knowledge regarding prevention of recurrence of asthma among asthmatic patients. 2 To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching on knowledge regarding prevention of recurrence of asthma among asthmatic patients. 3 To associate the knowledge scores with selected demographic variables. Material and Method: This study was based on Quantitative research approach. In this study, 40 Asthmatic Patients are included. The setting of the study was selected hospital of Wardha. Result: The result shows that 7(18%) had poor level of knowledge score, 32(80%) of them had average level of knowledge score in pretest and in posttest none of them had poor and average level of knowledge, 24(60%) of them had very good level of knowledge, 16(40%) of them had excellent level of knowledge score. Hence planned teaching was effective. It is statistically interpreted that planned teaching on knowledge regarding prevention of recurrence of asthma among asthmatic patients was effective. Thus H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. Conclusion: Thus it was concluded that planned teaching on the prevention of recurrence of asthma was found effective as a teaching strategy.

KPI as a reliable tool for evaluating the improvement in performance in an organisation. It provides valuable data to assess the growth of the organisation. KPI can be made & maintained at the organisation, department or individual level. KPI & its components to be well defined & targets or benchmarks are to be changed from time to time. Various KPI’s to be followed across clinical settings are Nurse-patient ratio for ICUs and WARDS, Incidence of hospital-associated pressure ulcers after admission, Re-intubation rate in ICU, Return to ICU within 48 hours etc. KPI must follow the SMART principle to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic& on time. Organisations must make a process flow for data collection & evaluation of data. Specific people should be designated towards collecting data & its analysis. Data of the KPI to be discussed in the top levels meetings & positive discussion should happen on the data. Result of the meeting to be disseminated among all regarding policy revision or regarding new policy across the organisation. Hence through KPI one can bring overall development & progress in various areas.

Statement: A quasi-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation on level of anxiety among alcohol dependence in selected rehabilitation centre. Objective: 1. To find out the level of Anxiety before administration of Progressive Muscle Relaxation among Alcohol dependence. 2. To find out the level of Anxiety after administration of Progressive Muscle Relaxation among Alcohol dependence. 3. To compare the level of Anxiety before and after administration of Progressive Muscle Relaxation among Alcohol dependence. 4. To determine the association between selected Demographic variables and level of anxiety among Alcohol dependence. Research Methodology: The research methodology adopted for the study was quantitative evaluative research approach. The research design is pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design. The study was conducted in the Rehabilitation Centre. Accessible population was all the Alcohol dependence who was available during the course of the study. 30 samples were selected with the help of nonprobability purposive sampling technique. As per inclusion criteria from the Rehabilitation Centre, Modified State Trait Anxiety Inventory Scale was used for the assessment of level of Anxiety. Result: In pre-test, majority of 15(50%) of Alcohol dependence were suffering from moderate anxiety, 10(30%) of them had severe anxiety, 6(20%) of them had mild anxiety and no alcohol dependence had normal anxiety. in the post-test, majority of (56.6%) of Alcohol dependence had mild anxiety (Score 26-50), 10(33.3%) of them had normal anxiety, 3(10%) of them had moderate anxiety and there was no Alcohol dependence who had severe anxiety.