Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Live Demonstration on Knowledge Regarding Surgical Management of Inguinal Hernia Repair among Nursing Students in Selected College of Nursing, Hubli
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Introduction: Teaching skills are essential for learning needs of the students, the teaching is aided by the various technique of teaching. Live demonstration is a technique of educating students in actual scenario with demonstration of the content of topic, here the teacher performs the in presence of the students the topic of discussion. In the present study the technique of live demonstration practiced to improve the knowledge of nursing students in surgical management of inguinal hernia repair included pre, intra and post operative management of surgery.
Objectives: the study designed to assess the effectiveness of live demonstration on knowledge regarding surgical management of inguinal hernia among nursing students.
Methodology: one group pretest posttest design used for 156 nursing students selected by simple random sampling technique, a structured knowledge questionnaire was designed having content validity of 0.89 and reliability of 0.92 used to collect and assess knowledge of nursing students on surgical management of inguinal hernia repair, pretest was conducted following which a live demonstration on periopertive management of inguinal hernia repair was demonstration in class room and by live video visuals from operation theater while performing surgery following which the post operative care was demonstrated till the stabilization of the patient. The posttest was conducted to assess the gained knowledge using same questionnaire used in pretest. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 16.0 version statistical analysis and the findings were tabulated and computed.
Results: The findings of the study revealed that, the pretest knowledge of the nursing students regarding surgical management of inguinal hernia repair was inadequate, out of 156 nursing students, assessed 145 students had inadequate knowledge, and following live demonstration the knowledge, improved to adequate to almost all the students signifying that live demonstration is effective method of teaching learning activity. The t value was 69.56 for 0.05 level of significance.
Conclusion: teaching is an art, which include the colors of various techniques to make classroom live and living. Live demonstration is the best method, which bring in the actual experience and spot learning of the students and the retention of the content discussed in live demonstration is high along with ability to compare, judge and reason the care and outcome of the learning. The study recommends that the nursing education should be equipped with live in demonstration, which brings students out of imagination of content and picture memorization from books and articles. Live demonstration should be included in teaching learning activity of the student’s class learning.
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