A Study to Assess Knowledge and Practice of Staff Nurses Regarding Care of Peripheral Intravenous Line (During Cannulization) Among Neonates at Selected Hospital in Jaipur with a View to Develop an Information Booklet

Abstract

Introduction : Placement of peripheral lines is the most commonly performed invasive procedure in acute health care settings with as many as 80% of hospital inpatients requiring intravenous access at some stage during their admission , and worldwide more than 1 billion lines are used annually. Methodology : Non- experimental descriptive research design was used as it will support the future meticulous research. Convenient sampling technique was used to select 100 Nursing officers in SPINPH , Hospital ,Jaipur. Information booklet was provided after data collection. Results :  It reveals that for relationship between knowledge and practice of staff nurse, the calculated value of Karl Pearson's correlation and coefficient is 0.096601 and tabulated value is 0.195 for degree of freedom 98 at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusions :  Correlation between knowledge and practice score shows correlation is not significant.