A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Educational Intervention Program Regarding Ecmo Therapy among Nursing Students in Selected Nursing College, Bareilly.

Abstract

Background:An ECMO machine can help to save a person’s life, but it does not heal the disease or injury that led to the heart and lung failure.³As ECMO is one of the advanced technologies, the investigator desired to educate the nursing students about ECMO therapy.

Objectives:1. To assess the level of Knowledge among nursing students regarding ECMO therapy.2.To determine the effectiveness of educational intervention programregarding ECMO therapy among nursing students.3.To find an association between level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables.

Materials and Methods: In the pre experimental study, 50 nursing students were selected as the samples by using non probability convenient sampling. The tools used for data collection consisted of proforma for socio-demographic data and structured knowledge questionnaire.The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Result: Most of the nursing students had poor and average knowledge in pre test while most of the students had good knowledge in post test.  Chi- square value reveals that among the entire demographic variablethere was a significant associated illustrated between marital status and pre-test scores.

Conclusion:Educationalintervention program regarding ECMO therapy found to be effective in improving the knowledge of Nursing students.