AN EXPLORATORY STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PERIPHERAL INTRAVENOUS CANNULATION AMONG NURSING STAFF IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL OF INDORE CITY.

This study determine the level of knowledge regarding peripheral intravenous cannulation among nursing staff through multiple choice statements. The study aimed at to assess the knowledge regarding peripheral cannulation among nursing staff and find out association of knowledge regarding peripheral intravenous cannulation among nursing staff with selected demographic variables. An exploratory study was carried out with 50 nursing staff working in different wards of Bombay Hospital, Indore. Multiple choice statements were used to evaluate the knowledge regarding peripheral intravenous cannulation. Socio-demographic data was analyzed with descriptive statistics that is frequency and percentage and association between knowledge and the selected demographic variables was done by chi-square test. The result showed that the mean knowledge score of nursing staff was 60% and computed standard deviation was 3.05.There was significant association between knowledge and selected demographic variables(inservice education attended on peripheral intravenous cannulation and number of cannulation performed daily) at 0.05 level of significance. Thus for this study one can conclude that nursing staff working in different wards of Bombay Hospital, Indore have adequate knowledge regarding peripheral intravenous cannulation and there was significant association between knowledge and selected demographic variables (in-service education attended on peripheral intravenous cannulation and number of cannulation performed daily).