Essential care of the normal healthy neonate can be best provided by the mothers under    supervision of nursing personnel or basic primary health care provider. About 80% of the   newborn baby should be kept with their mothers rather than in a separate nursery.
Objectives:   1. To assess the level of knowledge among postnatal mothers regarding newborn care   at selected hospital.
2. To find the association between level of knowledge among postnatal mothers   regarding newborn care with their selected Socio-demographic variables.    Design and Method: A quantitative approach using non-experimental research design. 40  Postnatal mothers were selected using simple random probability sampling at selected hospital,  Ranchi, Jharkhand. Self-structured multiple choice questionnaire on socio-demographic variables  and knowledge regarding newborn care were used for data collection.
Result: The study reveals that no postnatal mother (0%) has poor knowledge, 8(20%)  has average knowledge, 25(62.5%) has good knowledge and 7(17.5%) has excellent level of   knowledge. The chi-square value in number of child is 15 at degree of freedom 4, which is greater  than the Table value 9.49 at 0.05 level of significance and previous knowledge is 7.92 at degree     of freedom 3, which is greater than Table value 7.82 at 0.05 level of significance whereas; age,  education, family type, family income and area of residence is found to be not-significant. Hence,  the null hypothesis is rejected for previous knowledge about newborn care and number of child,  while accep  Essential care of the normal healthy neonate can be best provided by the mothers under
supervision of nursing personnel or basic primary health care provider. About 80% of the  newborn baby should be kept with their mothers rather than in a separate nursery.   Objectives:   1. To assess the level of knowledge among postnatal mothers regarding newborn care  at selected hospital.  2. To find the association between level of knowledge among postnatal mothers
regarding newborn care with their selected Socio-demographic variables.  Design and Method: A quantitative approach using non-experimental research design. 40   Postnatal mothers were selected using simple random probability sampling at selected hospital,
Ranchi, Jharkhand. Self-structured multiple choice questionnaire on socio-demographic variables   and knowledge regarding newborn care were used for data collection.   Result: The study reveals that no postnatal mother (0%) has poor knowledge, 8(20%)
has average knowledge, 25(62.5%) has good knowledge and 7(17.5%) has excellent level of    knowledge. The chi-square value in number of child is 15 at degree of freedom 4, which is greater   than the Table value 9.49 at 0.05 level of significance and previous knowledge is 7.92 at degree  of freedom 3, which is greater than Table value 7.82 at 0.05 level of significance whereas; age, 
education, family type, family income and area of residence is found to be not-significant. Hence,   the null hypothesis is rejected for previous knowledge about newborn care and number of child,  while accepted for others.