“A STUDY TO ASSESS EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MEDICO LEGAL ASPECTS IN CARE OF CANCER PATIENTS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN CANCER HOSPITALS.”

Abstract

Medico legal knowledge is an essence for a medical professional, irrespective of their specialty. Law is common to
all knowledge about medico legal issues is not optional for a treating doctors but a mandatory social responsibility.
Proper knowledge of roles and responsibilities of a health care provider is of immense importance while handling
these cases to facilitate social and legal justice
The present study was Quantitative Research approach and Pre experimental design (one group pre-test post-test) is
adopted in the present study. The sample size of this study is 50 staff nurses, with this non probability purposive
sampling technique used. Result of this study is mean and standard deviation of pre-test score are 8.42 and 1.63
respectively, and mean and standard deviation of post-test score 14.46 and 1.34. The‘t’ value of knowledge 20.25
‘p’ value = 0.0000 The mean knowledge was evaluated in pre-test and post-test conducted on 50 samples and it
showed significant increases in knowledge about medico legal aspects in care of cancer patients after conducting
planned teaching programme, and the staff nurses have gained knowledge regarding medico legal aspects in care of
cancer patients.