“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ON STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITALS OF THE CITY.”

Abstract

It has been observed that the psychiatric emergencies were frequently occur in the society so its knowledge is necessary for the staff nurses. Hence I felt the need to undertake a study on Effectiveness of structured teaching programmed on knowledge of staff nurses regarding psychiatric emergencies in order to meet the challenges of crises later. Sampling is the process of selecting sample from the target population to represent the entire population. Convenience sampling is a type of non-probability sampling method where subjects selected because of their convenient accessibility and 30 proximity to the researcher. In the present study convenience sampling technique is used to select the sample. These was marked improvement of scores in the post test is 46.67% sample were having excellent knowledge, 41.67% sample were having very good knowledge, 10% sample were having good knowledge and 1.66% sample were having average knowledge. The statistical outcomes of demographic variables of staff nurses residing in selected hospitals in the city, effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among staff nurses residing of selected hospitals in the city using descriptive and inferential statistics on the basis of previously drawn objectives.