A study to assess the skills regarding immediate newborn care and knowledge on identification of danger signs with a view to develop its protocol among B.Sc. nursing final year students in a selected hospitals

Abstract

A non-experimental descriptive survey approach was undertaken in the present study “a study to assess the skills regarding immediate newborn care and knowledge on identification of danger signs with a view to develop its protocol among B.Sc. nursing final year students in a selected college of nursing”. Findings of the study reveal that there is moderately positive correlation between skills regarding immediate newborn care and knowledge related to identification of danger signs in newborn as calculated coefficient of correlation (0.20) < critical value (0.25). The findings of the present study have implications for nursing practice, nursing administration, nursing education and nursing research.