Abstract
Health and illness underpin our everyday existence. Health allows us to live the full lives and to function as social beings. Today’s student nurses are the tomorrow important entity of health team. When a person determines to be a nurse, they make the most important decisions of their lives they choose to commit themselves to the care of others. The main aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of Nursing students regarding organophosphorus poisoning and its management in Nursing institutions of Mysuru. A descriptive method was adopted. The samples consist of 60 nursing students selected using nonprobability convenience sampling technique from selected nursing institutions. The data collection tool consists of a structured knowledge and personal profile questionnaire to evaluate the level of knowledge. The study shows that majority i.e. 46 (76.66%) of the samples were in the age group of 20–22 years, majority i.e. 53 (88.33%) of the samples are female and all the samples i.e. 60(100%) belong to 3rd year GNM nursing students. Maximum number55 (91.66%) of the samples have clinical exposures to critical and emergency setting and 48 (71.66%) of the samples have attended educational program on management of poisoning. The knowledge score of nursing students ranged from 12 to 26 and mean 17.45 with standard deviation ±4.01 and median value 18. Majority 48 (80%) of nursing students had average knowledge regarding organ phosphorous poisoning and its management. There was significant association found between level of knowledge of nursing students and their selected personal variables like clinical exposure to critical and emergency setting and attended any education program on management of poisoning.
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