Effectiveness of Instructive Bookleton Knowledge About Organ Donation among GNM Nurses Working at Selected PHCs of Pune

Abstract

Background: At the point when an individual permits their very own organ to be evacuated and relocated
to someone else, legitimately, either by assent while the benefactor is alive or dead intends to organ gift.
To comprehend Organ Donation, it is first basic to comprehend organ Transplantation. An exchange is a
clinical technique where one individual’s broken organ or tissue is supplanted by that of a solid individual;
in this way re-establish its capacity. The organ gift and transplantation framework endeavour to respect the
endowment of gave organs by completely utilizing those organs to spare or improve the greatness of the
lives of relocate beneficiaries.
Objectives: 1. Toassess the knowledge about organ donation among GNM nurses working at selected
PHCs of Pune, 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of instructive booklet on knowledge about organ donation,
amongstGNM nurses working at certain PHCs of Pune.
Methodology: Study is quantitative-one group pre-test post-test design. Collected information by selfstructured questionnaire by purposive sampling method. The questionnaire had two sections, to gather
information regarding demographic variables, knowledge on organ donation.
Result: Assessed the knowledge regarding organ donation and result were found as: 56.4% of the GNM
nurses had poor knowledge and 43.6% of them had average knowledge. In posttest, 14.5% of the GNM nurses
had poor knowledge, 25.5% of them middlinginformation and 60% of them had superiorunderstandingon
the subject of organ endowment.
Conclusion: Study revealed that instructive booklet is effective to increase the knowledge on organ donation
among GNM nurses.