The pandemic COVID-19 is a highly infected disease caused by a novel coronavirus or SARS-Cov-2. The virus was reported for the first time  December 2019 in, China's Wuhan province. Later the virus has broken down into the world and claimed millions of lives. In India, the disease was reported for the first time in Kerala on 30th January 2020. a cross-section one group pre-test & post-test research design was used among the 40 final year BSc nursing students, College of Nursing SGPGIMS, Lucknow India. Samples were selected based on purposive sampling technique and sample criteria. An instrument, the first tool included demographic characteristics Similarly, second instrument used for knowledge assessment. After pre-test assessment, a teaching session was held at the seminar room, college of nursing SGPGIMS Lucknow, India. Subsequently post assessment was held after intervention.  A total of 40 participants responded to the study. Demographic variables like 30(75%) participants had less than 22 years of age, 22(55%) were girls, 14(35%) families income found INR 10000-15000, and the majority of participants obtained COVID-19 related knowledge from news paper16(40%). A gender was found significant with pretest knowledge, and other variables weren't found significant (P=0.05). Knowledge mean & standard deviation in pre & post-intervention, 11.90±2.16 vs15.82±1.39. The mean difference was found in a pre-test & post-test-1 &post-test-2, 3.9, 5.02, & 1.1, respectively. The effectiveness of the training program was checked by paired t-test -10.20 & -13.93, P=0.00.  The study revealed that the teaching session was efficient in the COVID-19 program among BSc nursing students.

Aim: This study was aimed to evaluate the association between serumD-dimer, serum Ferritin with disease severity in patents havingCOVID-19. Methods:Total 80 confirmed COVID-19 patients were enrolled in this cross sectional study. Samples were assessed by positive SARSCoV- 2 by RT-PCR testing and were collected from two tertiary Hospitals(IbnSina Medical College Hospital and Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute).We also performed CT findings of COVID patients with or without pulmonary involvement. COVIDpositive patients were divided into two groups (Group 1 and Group2) according to lungs involvement confirmed by CT-scan. In this analysis, several variables such as gender, age, D-dimer and serum ferritin were taken. Results: The Mean of D-dimer in Group-1 subjects was 4.26±3.60mg/L and in Group-2, this was 0.59±1.08mg/L. So D-dimer level was significantly raised in COVIDpneumonic patient (P value = <0.001). The mean of ferritin(554.65±515.841)ng/ml for pneumonic patient was also highly significant than the mean(133.70±109.22)ng/ml of COVID without pneumonia. Conclusion:D-dimer and S. ferritin were elevated in patients with COVID-19. These two reliable biomarkers are correlate with the disease severity and useful for better management of COVIDpositive patients. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.20(5) 2021 p.166-170

Introduction: The safety of patients in health-care systems has long been a concern, but despite many positive changes in practice, health systems, and regulations, the desired level of safety remains unachieved. The competency of health-care leaders to create positive work environments and manage constant change is essential to the success of teams and organizations. The need for great leadership in health care has always been imperative; however, throughout the industry's recent transformation, it has been vital. Faced with enormous amounts of change, today's leaders must be capable of serving their teams while adapting to the evolving landscape and leading us into the future. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the leadership style of nurse managers and ascertain the influence of leadership style on patient safety culture, organizational citizenship behavior, and job satisfaction so as to suggest an evidence-based feed forward for preparing guidelines for training of nurse managers working in a superspecialty tertiary health-care teaching institute in Northern India. Objectives: The objectives of this study were as follows – (1) to identify the leadership style of nurse managers based on full-range leadership model using the prevalidated tool, (2) to ascertain the influence of leadership style on patient safety culture using the prevalidated tool, (3) to assess the influence of leadership style on organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction using the prevalidated tool, and (4) to suggest an evidence-based feed forward for preparing guidelines for training of nurse managers working in a superspecialty health-care teaching institute in India using analysis of data thus obtained. Methodology: This was an analytical study. Results: (1) In the study, it was thus found that as transformational and transactional leadership behavior increases, patient safety culture, organizational citizenship behavior, and job satisfaction also increase; (2) on the other hand, patient safety culture, organizational citizenship behavior, and job satisfaction decrease as laissez-faire leadership behavior increases. Conclusion: Staff nurse under the leadership of their managers provides exemplary care and shares professional knowledge as well as provides direction and support to practice best patient care through policy development.