District.

Demographic Data, structured knowledge questionnaire and self report

method were used for data collection procedure. The tool was finalized by consulting

five experts in the field of medical and nursing. Pilot study was done for its clarity,

un ambiguity and feasibility on similar subject. To analyze the experimental data,

statistical analysis was used. Demographic data of the staff nurses were presented in

graphs. Association of variables was tested by Karl Pearson Chi-Square test.

MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY:

The findings of the study showed that Over all knowledge of experimental

group it shows that the have improved their knowledge from 41.50% to 81.93%. The

over all knowledge of control group shows that in pretest they had 40.75% and in post

test they had 42.00%, The Overall comparison of pretest and posttest knowledge for

experiment group was 16.6% to 32.77%. Hence the posttest group had more

knowledge is more than pretest. The Overall comparison of pretest and posttest

knowledge for control group was 16.3% and 16.80%, this shows that there is no

improvement was found.

The association between demographic variables with knowledge of

experimental and control group shows that age and years of experience are significant

with posttest knowledge

KEY WORDS:

Arterial Blood Gas, Knowledge, structure teaching programme, staff nurses,

Intensive care unit.

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