A Study to Assess the Knowledge of Staff Nurses Regarding Neurorehabilitation in Dhiraj Hospital

Abstract

Background: Rehabilitation is an integral part of medical care. Rehabilitation includes all measures aimed at reducing the impact of disabling and conditions causing handicap. It is also aimed at enabling the disabled and the handicapped to be an accepted member of the society. Neurorehabilitation assumes that motor learning contributes to motor recovery after injury. However, little is known about how learning itself is affected by brain injury, how learning mechanisms interact with spontaneous biological recovery, and how best to incorporate learning principles into rehabilitation training protocols.This study was designed to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation in Dhiraj Hospital.In this study Quantitative evaluative research approach with descriptive research design was used. Emphasis was put on trying to establish the relationship between ages, gender, professional experience, previous area of experience, have you undergone any training on neurorehabilitation. The validity and reliability of research instruments was established, and data was collected from 60 staff nurses selected from Dhiraj Hospital using convenient sampling method. To analyze the data and correlation statistical tool was used with the aim of establishing to find out association between knowledge score with selected demographic variables. This formed the basis of the detailed analysis and conclusions and recommendations. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding neurorehabilitation and to find out the association between knowledge and the selected demographic variables. Material and Method: In this research study Quantitative evaluative research approach with descriptive research design was used. The sampling technique was convenient sampling used to collect the 60 samples of staff nurses. Data collection was done by administering the self-structured questionnaire. Data was analysed by using descriptive and interferential statistics such as standard deviation and chi- test. Results: In this study 15% staff nurses were having poor knowledge and 85% staff nurses were having average knowledge. Conclusion: This study has dealt with the analysis and interpretation of the data collected from 60 staff nurses. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The analysis has been recognized and presented under various demographic variables. In this research study findings show that staff nurses have poor and average knowledge regarding neurorehabilitation.