Education to Nursing Personnel on Hospital Waste Management

Environmental sanitation practices were very much a part of the ancient Indian Civilization but such practices were introduced in the hospital system only in the post Vedic period. Among the health team members Nurses are the one who spend most of their time in direct patient care. Segregation is the key to Hospital Waste Management and Nurses are responsible for Segregating Hospital Waste. So educating the nurses on Hospital Waste Management is the need of this hour.

Objectives:

1. Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Nurses On Hospital Waste Management

2. Education to Nurses on Hospital Waste Management.

3. Reassessment of Knowledge and Practice of Nurses on Hospital Waste Management

Hypothesis:

1. Education improves the average knowledge of nurses on Hospital Waste Management

2. There is an association between knowledge and demographic characters of the nurses. This study was supported with relevant literature.

Methodology:

1. Research design: One group pretest post test design was adopted.

2. Setting: Conducted in Karuna Medical College hospital.

3. Population&Sampling: Simple random sampling

4. Tool: The questionnaire

DATA ANALYSIS: The area wise score was assessed or an average there was 46% gain in knowledge score of nurses on hospital waste management. To compare the pretest and post test knowledge scores paired't' test was used. The calculated't' value is 3.58 which is greater than the table value 0.01% level of significance. To find out the association between the demographic variables on the pretest knowledge scores Karl Pearson's co-efficient of correction was used. There was an inverse correlation between age and knowledge and positive relationship between experience and qualification on knowledge score on hospital waste management was found.