Introduction: Basic life support (BLS) is an emergency procedure that consists of recognizing an arrest and initiating proper cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques to maintain life until victims either recovers or is transported to medical facility where advanced  life support are available. It is very important that all nurses know about basic life support to save lives of patients. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 50 nurses working in various intensive and high care units of our teaching hospital to assess their Knowledge on BLS. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used for data collection for which self-administered semi-structured questionnaire was used. Results: Majority (46%) of the respondents were between 20 to 25 years of age. 52% of respondents were of Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL), 36 % of bachelor of nursing (BN) and 12% Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.Sc Nursing). 36% respondents had working experience of 5-10 years and 6% of 10-15 years. All respondents had heard about BLS but 86% of them had never attended any BLS training. Most of the respondents (86 %) had seen CPR being done and more than half of the respondents (58%) had done CPR. 62% stated circulation, airway and breathing as the latest CPR sequence. 90% of the respondents said cardiac arrest is the indication of CPR. 66 % had inadequate knowledge, 32%  had moderate knowledge while minority 2 %  had adequate knowledge on Basic Life Support.Conclusion: Knowledge of Basic Life Support (BLS) among Nepalese nurses was inadequate in majority of cases. There was also no association between the knowledge and academic qualification or experience.

Background: Over-the-counter drugs are the medicines that are sold without prescription of med­ical person. Though over-the-counter drugs are believed to be relatively safe, their inappropriate use could have serious implications. The aim of the study was to assess the awareness and practice on over-the-counter drugs among the Mushahar adults of Nawalparasi district, Nepal. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 102 respondents. Non-proba­bility purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample using semi-structured question­naire. Data was collected through face to face exit interview. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for analyzing the data. Results: Majority (91.2%) of the respondents knew that over-the-counter drugs are the unpre­scribed drugs by medical person and majority (95.1%) of the respondents used in case of fever and 83.3% of the respondents used because of easy accessibility More than half (52.9%) of the respondents had practiced over-the-counter drugs at least once within the first six months of data collection. The most preferred over-the-counter drugs were analgesics i.e 44.4%. On analyzing, there found a strong association between awareness level on demographic variables of educa­tional status and occupation with the consumption of over-the-counter drugs as p value was <0.05. Conclusions: Study revealed that people use over-the-counter drugs because of easily availability and the most commonly used drugs were analgesics. So, different awareness programmes to the community and timely monitoring and intervention from the government is needed to prevent the rampant of over the counter drugs.

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Background: Over-the-counter drugs are the medicines that are sold without prescription of med­ical person. Though over-the-counter drugs are believed to be relatively safe, their inappropriate use could have serious implications. The aim of the study was to assess the awareness and practice on over-the-counter drugs among the Mushahar adults of Nawalparasi district, Nepal. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 102 respondents. Non-proba­bility purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample using semi-structured question­naire. Data was collected through face to face exit interview. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for analyzing the data. Results: Majority (91.2%) of the respondents knew that over-the-counter drugs are the unpre­scribed drugs by medical person and majority (95.1%) of the respondents used in case of fever and 83.3% of the respondents used because of easy accessibility More than half (52.9%) of the respondents had practiced over-the-counter drugs at least once within the first six months of data collection. The most preferred over-the-counter drugs were analgesics i.e 44.4%. On analyzing, there found a strong association between awareness level on demographic variables of educa­tional status and occupation with the consumption of over-the-counter drugs as p value was <0.05. Conclusions: Study revealed that people use over-the-counter drugs because of easily availability and the most commonly used drugs were analgesics. So, different awareness programmes to the community and timely monitoring and intervention from the government is needed to prevent the rampant of over the counter drugs.