Day :
Keynote Forum
Sandhya Ghai
National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, India
Keynote: Impact of workshop on HIV/AIDS/ART on knowledge of nursing students at National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, Chandigarh
Biography:
Dr. Sandhya Ghai, Principal, National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE), PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, completed Ph.D in 1998 from Punjab University Chandigarh, (Nsg. Service Administration), M.Sc. (Psych. Nsg., 1989), M.A. (Pub. Admn., 1980), Short-term course in Intensive Care, 1979. She is Director, WHOCC, NINE, PGIMER, Chandigarh. She has bagged National Mahila Rattan Gold Medal Award, Best Educationist Award, Basanti Rai Award for Best Thesis. She is recipient of Best poster awards at International Conference on Nursing and Emergency Medicine held in Las Vegas, USA; and at National Conference on the theme " Today's Learner's Tomorrow's Leader-Transforming Nursing Education held at The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences, Shillong, along with best paper award at many National Conferences. She has received Life Time Achievement Award 2016 in recognition of outstanding academic clinical & Research services to specialty of Nursing at 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Nursing Education and Research, Nursing care and Psychiatry Nursing organized by Institute of Nursing Education & Research, New Delhi. She has about 100 publications and paper presentations at National and International Conferences to her credit.
Abstract:
Introduction: India has the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. In 2017, HIV prevalence among adults (aged 15-49) was an estimated 0.2%. This figure is small compared to most other middle-income countries but because of India's huge population (1.3 billion people) this equates to 2.1 million people living with HIV. Nurses have played a crucial role in caring for individuals infected with HIV since the inception of the epidemic. Nurses have assumed multiple responsibilities in HIV Prevention care and treatment, both in traditional nursing roles and new areas especially in resource-limited settings. A well trained nursing manpower is crucial for the Control of transmission of infection & management of patient infected with HIV.
Objective: To assess the knowledge of B.Sc. Nursing Final year students on HIV/AIDS & ART before the workshop by conducting the pre-test, to conduct workshop on HIV/AIDS & ART, and to re-assess the knowledge after workshop by conducting the post test.
Methodology: Keeping this in mind a workshop was planned for student-nurses on HIV/AIDS. A total of 139 student nurses from B.Sc. Nursing 4 years and B.Sc. Post Basic nursing were trained. Total duration of the course was 5 days. Important topics related to HIV/ AIDS on Nurses Role in HIV/AIDS & ART, Stigma & Discrimination, Epidemiology and disease progression, Counselling and testing for HIV, Prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT), Infection control & Post exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), Introduction to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Pediatric HIV, Symptomatic management of Opportunistic infections, Sexually transmitted infections, Positive living, Palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Pretest and post test were conducted to assess the effectiveness of the workshop. Maximum score of the Pre-test and Post-test was 20.
Result: Results revealed that the majority (87.7%) of nurses were females, 5.7% were married and 57.5% belonged to rural background. Result also showed that the mean post test scores (17.65 + 1.44) of B.Sc. Nursing (4 years) students & B.Sc. Nursing (Post Basic) were significantly higher than the mean pre test scores (15.66+ 1.46) as per paired t-test (p<.05).
Conclusion: The study concluded that the workshop was effective in increasing the knowledge of nurses about HIV/AIDS & ART, before they are inducted into job. It is also recommended that such training programmes should be the part of all nursing courses and in-service programmes.
Keynote Forum
Selen Ozakar Akca
Hitit University,Turkey
Keynote: The effect of disabled training on attitudes toward people with disabilities of adolescent
Time : 14:00-14:30
Biography:
Dr. Selen Ozakar Akca was born in Samsun, Turkey in 1980. She received her PhD degree from Istanbul University Institute of Health Science with the thesis entitled “Risk-Taking Behaviours of Adolescents and The Effect of Nursing Practice on Substance Abuse in Accordance With Model of Change in Adolescents” in 2013. She has been working in Hitit University Health School since 2008. She is married and has a son.
Abstract:
Abstract
Disability is an unfavorable situation in which the individual is not able to partially or completely perform his/her expected roles according to age, gender, social and cultural factors. Attitude is not a behavior inherent in the individual. It is acquired through learning from parents, friends, mass media and individual experiences. In many studies, it was determined that the negative attitudes exhibited against disabled individuals negatively affected every stage of their lives. Considering that the students in secondary training institutions are adolescents and that the training to be given about the disability in this period prevents their negative attitudes about the disability, this paper aims to determine the attitudes of adolescents towards disabled people and to determine the effects of training on their attitudes towards the disabled. The data were collected through Attitudes Towards Disabled Person Scale and Sociodemographic Data Form. The findings of the study show that young people participating in the research have positive attitudes towards disabled people, necessiating that positive attitudes towards them be increased. It also shows that awareness training about disabled people given to adolescents helps adolescents change their attitudes towards disabled people in a positive way.