Introduction: Community Nursing Bag though in practice for quite a long time has never been used extensively during home visits. It was therefore prudent to undertake a study to redesign the community nursing bag and assess its acceptability amongst student nurses of a selected college of nursing at New Delhi with the primary objective to validate the redesigned community nursing bag by experts. Material and Methods: The design of the study was methodological. The final study with 150 student nurses was conducted at Rufaida College of Nursing, Delhi to assess the acceptability of the bag using a semi-structured questionnaire. To validate the redesigned bag, a structured questionnaire was given to the 17 experts. Result: The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Content Validity Index (CVI) was used to validate the characteristics of the redesigned community nursing bag. A CVI score of more than 0.73 was valid for this study. Following validation by the experts, the acceptability of the nursing bag was estimated. The major findings of the study showed a very positive validation by all the experts with mean CVI score of 0.9156. From acceptability perspective, 97% of the student nurses found the redesigned bag highly acceptable. Conclusion: The community nursing bag was redesigned taking inputs from a panel of selected community health nursing experts who validated the changes. Following this, student nurses used the bag during home visits in the community and found it highly acceptable.

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 resulted in the outbreak of a respiratory illness known as COVID-19. The novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has been identified as the cause of outbreak of the pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, and in quick succession spread to several other countries around the world. Objective: The study was taken up to assess the knowledge and practice of community regarding prevention of Corona Virus Infectious Disease, to seek relationship between knowledge and practice regarding prevention of Corona virus disease and to seek association of knowledge and practice with selected demographic variables. Method: The quantitative approach was adopted for the study with a descriptive survey design. Research variables were knowledge and expressed practice of community regarding prevention of COVID-19. The sample comprised of 503 people, selected through purposive sampling technique. An online survey was conducted to collect the data by using a structured questionnaire to assess knowledge and expressed practice regarding prevention of COVID-19. The data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The majority of the subjects i.e. 62.4% were in the age group of young adults 18-35 years, 50.1% were male and 83.7% of them studied up to graduation or more. 98.8% of the subjects had adequate knowledge and 99.8% had appropriate expressed practice regarding prevention of corona virus disease. This indicates that community has good knowledge and practice as expressed by them. There was significant association between the knowledge of community regarding prevention of corona virus disease with selected demographic variables i.e. age, educational status and source of information. Further, findings showed that there was a positive correlation between the knowledge and practice of community regarding prevention of COVID 19. Conclusion: Study concludes that community has adequate knowledge and appropriate level of practice regarding prevention of corona virus disease.

Introduction: Social media sites have become the most popular mode in recent years to communicate with people and share interests and likes with others. One of the many influences of social media is change in family relationships resulting from a decline in quality time spent with the family especially among youths including students. So the objective of the present study was to assess the effect of social media usage on family relationship. Method: A descriptive survey was conducted on 124 student nurses studying at Rufaida College of Nursing, selected by purposive sampling technique. Structured rating scale and Brief Family Relationship Scale were used to assess social media usage and family relationships of student nurses on three parameters, expressiveness, cohesion, and conflicts. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Linear correlation was used to find the correlation between social media usage and family relationship. Result: The assessment of family relationships indicated maximum expressiveness among families of 76 students, maximum cohesion among families of 115 students, and moderate conflicts among families of 58 students. In the linear correlation, there is a direct relationship of cohesion and expressiveness in the family and social media usage and inverse relationship of conflict within the family and social media usage. Conclusion: There seems to be a direct correlation between social media usage and expressiveness and cohesion within the family and an inverse relationship between conflict and social media usage in the family.

Breast self-examination is a very simple screening tool for breast cancer. It requires minimal training to be imparted to women. They are instructed to detect any asymmetry with the other breast in terms of a lump, change in breast shape or of the overlying skin (puckering), any abnormal discharge from the nipples &/or any breast lesion that does not heal easily. Teaching women about this importance of breast self-examination is a core subject of community nursing. It was therefore thought important to assess the background knowledge regarding the same amongst women of a selected area in Haryana. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and expressed practices regarding breast self-examination among women in a selected area of Haryana. A sample of 50 women was chosen. Data collection was done by using Google form questionnaire after assessing their willingness and ability to participate in this survey by filling up this online form. After assessing the knowledge level, it was found that 80% (n=40) were having adequate knowledge regarding breast self-examination and 20% (n=10) were having inadequate knowledge regarding breast self-examination. 52% of the women (n=26) were practicing breast self-examination and rest were not. Awareness regarding breast self-examination was adequate in the sample studied. However, the practice of performing the same was present in only about 50% of the women in the above-mentioned sample. The findings of the study highlights the need for educational programs to create awareness among women regarding regular breast screening behavior.