Effect of self-instructional module on oxygen therapy and prevention of hyper oxygenation hazards in terms of knowledge and practice in neonate among staff nurses working at SNCU in selected hospital, West Bengal

Neonate is tiny human being who always needs special care. In order to prevent death in neonate due to hypoxia or hyper oxygenation, the most crucial part is appropriate oxygen administration. ROP is thought to have caused blindness in 50,000 children worldwide in 2012.1 A pre experimental study was adopted on effect of self-instructional module on oxygen therapy and prevention of hyper oxygenation hazards in terms of knowledge and practice in neonate among staff nurses working at SNCU in selected Hospital, West Bengal with the objective to assess knowledge and practice regarding oxygen therapy and prevention of hyper oxygenation hazards in neonate among staff nurses before and after self-instructional module, to evaluate effect of self-instructional module on knowledge and practice of oxygen therapy among staff nurses, to find out association between knowledge score and practice score of oxygen therapy with selected demographic variables. One group pre-test post-test design was selected. By purposive sampling technique 50 staff nurses of SNCU was selected. Study findings revealed that the self-instructional module was effective to increase the knowledge and practice of staff nurses as evidenced from paired ‘t’ value between pre- test and post-test knowledge score (‘t’ = 9.42, p= 0.05), and practice score (‘t’ = 8.52, p = 0.05). There was significant association of pre-test knowledge score with professional qualification and total work experience. There was also significant association of pre-test practice score with work experience in new-born care unit. The similar study can be conducted with large sample for generalization.