“A study to assess the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program (PTP) on knowledge regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection among the Staff Nurses working in selected areas of Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Shimla- Himachal Pradesh”

“A study to assess the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program (PTP) on knowledge regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection among the Staff Nurses working in selected areas of Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, ShimlaHimachal Pradesh”.The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection. Quantitative research approach and a pre-experimental research design was adapted for the study. 50 Staff Nurses were selected by using convenient sampling technique.The findings of the study showed that mean post-test knowledge score (37.30) was higher than the pre-test knowledge score (32.32). Hence the Planned Teaching Program given to the Staff Nurses was effective. Calculated t-value was 5.61 and table value was 2.01 at 0.05 level of significance. It showed that the calculated t-value was greater than tabulated value. So the study done to assess the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection among Staff Nurses was significant. On the basis of the study, the recommendations offered for the further researches that, this study can be replicated on a large number of samples of Staff Nurses from different State and District hospitals for wider generalization of the findings. A follow up study on the same sample may be conducted to assess the retention of knowledge of Staff Nurses regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection. A comparative study can be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program regarding prevention of Nosocomial Infection among the Staff Nurses of Government and Private hospital.