Abstract

Lecturer Sunita Kumari Mahato* and Prof. and HOD, S. Jayasree

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are single leading causes of death globallymainly due to cardiac arrest, myocardial infraction and stroke which predicts thatthe death rate would reach 23.6 million by 2030. Management of cardiacemergency includes the prevention and treatment of in-hospital and out-of-hospitalcardiac arrest where the prompt response and necessary skills in nursing help inrapid recognition and treatment that doubles the survival rates of the victim.Objective: To assess the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching programme onknowledge regarding management of cardiac emergencies among final yearB.Sc.nursing students of selected nursing college. Methods: A Pre experimentalone group pre-test and post-test study design were conducted among 60 nursingstudents at Indira Gandhi Nursing Collage Bangalore using the non- probabilityconvenient sampling technique. A self-administered structured questionnaire wasused to collect the data. Computer assisted teaching was given to the nursingstudent on management of cardiac emergencies. The collected data was analyzedusing descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS version 16.0. Results: Inthe pre-test assessment only 8.3% of the respondents had moderate knowledgewhile the majority (91.7%) of the respondents had inadequate knowledge and noneof the respondents had adequate knowledge. In post-test, nearly three quarters(73.3%) of the respondents had adequate level of knowledge, more than one quarter(26.7%) of the respondents had a moderate level of knowledge and none of therespondents had inadequate level of knowledge. The post-test knowledge meanscore was 26.67 ± 3.516 higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score 10.5 ±1.605. The calculated „t? value (19.72) and p-value (<0.0001**) was less thantabulated value which is highly significant. No association was found between thelevels of knowledge with any demographic variables regarding management ofcardiac emergencies. Conclusion: Thus the study concluded that computer assistedteaching was significantly effective in increasing the knowledge on management ofcardiac emergencies among nursing students.