Abstract

Lecturer Laxmi Ranabhat* and Prof. HOD S. Jayasree

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Risks are inherent in every surgical procedure, and orthopedicprocedures are no exception. The major complications are deep vein thrombosis,surgical site infection, bleeding, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia and pressure soredue to prolong immobilization which can be prevented if the nurse providing carehas adequate knowledge about the actual and potential complications amongorthopedic clients and the measures to prevent them. Objectives: To assess theeffectiveness of computer assisted teaching regarding the prevention of selectedpostoperative orthopedic complications among BSc. 3rd year students at IndiraGandhi Collage of Nursing Bangalore. Methods: A Pre experimental one grouppre-test and post-test study design was conducted among 60 nursing students usingnon- probability convenient sampling technique. A self-administered structuredquestionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data was analyzed usingdescriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS version 16.0. Result: In pre-test58.3% of the respondents had inadequate knowledge and 41.7% of the respondentshad moderate knowledge none of the respondents had adequate knowledge. In posttest,83.3% of the respondents had adequate level of knowledge, while16.7% of therespondents had a moderate level of knowledge and none of the respondents hadinadequate level of knowledge. The post-test knowledge mean score was 27.50 ±2.8013 higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score 14.50 ± 3.462. Thecalculated “t? value 21.02 and p-value (<0.0001**) was less than tabulated valuewhich is highly significant. The enhancement mean was 13. Hence the researchhypothesis H1 was accepted and null hypothesis H01 was rejected. No associationwas found between the levels of knowledge with any demographic variables.Conclusion: Thus the study concluded that computer assisted teaching wassignificantly effective in increasing the knowledge on prevention of selectedorthopedic complication among nursing students.