Background: Deep Vein Thrombosis may lead to many complications like Pulmonary embolism (PE), Postphlebitic syndrome and Treatment complications like Bleeding (haemorrhage) as a side effect of blood thinners. The knowledge of health care providers, especially the nurses would make a significant impact in the early risk identification speedy recovery and prevention of these complications. Materials and Methods: A quantitative research approach was adopted for the study. A one group pre-test and post-test experimental design was used to determine the effect of planned teaching program on knowledge of staff nurses. The study comprised of 40 nursing interns working in a selected Hospital who fulfilled inclusive criteria drawn by Convenient Sampling method. A self-administered knowledge questionnaire was used for data collection. The content Validity of the tool was established in consultation with guide and 12 experts from the field of Medical Surgical Nursing, an educationist and a statistician. Reliability coefficient of knowledge questionnaire was calculated using the Karl Pearson correlation coefficient method. Further, a formal permission was obtained from authority concerned from selected hospital for data collection. Then, the Collected data were tabulated and analyzed. Results: The study revealed that the mean score among nurses was 10.5 (42%) during pre-test rose up to 20(80%) in the post-test evaluation. Result interpreted that there was a significant increase in knowledge level of nursing interns after administration of the intervention. It is evident that the calculated’ value was greater than the table value of ‘t’ at 0.05 level. This indicates that Planned teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge of the nursing interns. Conclusion: The study was done to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis among nursing interns. The result of this study shows that the most of the nursing interns had excellent knowledge after administration of planned teaching program. Hence, it can be concluded that the planned teaching program was found good method for achieving knowledge on DVT and its prevention. Key words: planned teaching program, knowledge, Deep Vein Thrombosis

The study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic measures on deep vein thrombosis among post-operative patients at Selected Hospital, Maharashtra. A quantitative research approach was adopted for this particular study. A True-experimental post-test only design was adopted by the investigator for this study. A consecutive sampling technique was used to draw 60 post-operative patients (30 samples in the experimental group & 30 in the control group) as samples for this particular study. The samples in the experimental group received Prophylactic measures like early mobilization whereas the samples in the control group received only routine hospital care. Later, during post-test, Modified well’s criteria was used to identify the risk of patients for deep vein thrombosis on 5th day morning. The study findings revealed that there was a significant difference in the risk level of developing deep vein thrombosis between the samples of experimental group and control group t = 3.7, p= 0.01). The study results revealed that prophylactic measures are effective to prevent the risk of post-operative patients from developing deep vein thrombosis. Keywords: Effectiveness, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Post-operative patients, prophylactic measures.

This study was carried out to assess the knowledge and practice regarding prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis among staff nurses working in selected tertiary care hospitals of Maharashtra state. A Cross sectional survey approach was used to assess the knowledge and practice regarding prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis among staff nurses. A Descriptive Research Design was adopted by the investigator to assess the socio demographic profile as well as knowledge and practice of staff nurses. The investigator used a purposive sampling technique to select the study participants. To collect data, a Self-Administered Questionnaire was used among nurses. Further, the collected data were analyzed in accordance with the objectives of the research question. Majority 27(45%) of staff nurses had average knowledge and 8 (30%) had poor knowledge. The data with respect to the practice of staff nurses was collected using self-reported practice checklist, and results showed that majority had good (around 60%) practice on prevention of DVT.