Effectiveness of a Psychiatric Nursing Procedure Manual (PNPM) on Psychiatric Nursing Training among the Undergraduate Students in Selected Setting

Abstract

Introduction: Psychiatric nursing teaches students how to engage and communicate with patients who have severe emotional distress. Nurses need this knowledge as the majority of patients encountered in hospitals are distressed Objectives of the Study: To assess the need of the procedure manual for nursing training among UG student nurses before and after the introduction of procedure manual in selected setting. To determine the levels of performance ability and confidence of psychiatric student nurses’ group I (using procedure manual) and group II (without using procedure manual) during their clinical practice training. Methodology: An evaluatory research approach, post-test only control design was used in this study to assess the effectiveness of a psychiatric nursing procedure manual (PNPM) on psychiatric nursing training among the undergraduate students. In this study, the sample consists of 48 undergraduate psychiatric student nurses, selected by using random sampling method, further they were divided into two groups Result: Majority of the subjects in 75% before and 86% after the introduction of procedure manual have expressed high necessity of the procedure manual, no subject has fallen in the less need category or no need category and control group need of procedure manual is 74% before and 74% after same without intervention. Conclusion: The Psychiatric Nursing Procedure Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been specially compiled for students to include the essential procedures they need to know.