Abstract

Background:Knowledge and attitude of nurses and nursing students may vary regarding IM injection techniques, the most common issues are selection of injection site, cleansing skin before injection, needle size used and pinching or spreading the skin before injection. Aim:To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and anxiety regarding first time administering IM injection among 30 1st year Nursing students . Method : A pre experimental design , Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample.to asses knowledge Self structured questions, for anxiety Zung self-rated scale was used Result:The present study showed that in pre& post improvement knowledge with SD as follows 15.90+3.661,23.20+3.736 those are highly significant value is 0.05 and in anxiety pre test 17.30+4.743 and post test value is 31.87+5.865 those highly significant with p value of 0.05administration of IM injection. Conclusion: To enhance the knowledge and interest of student by using various teaching method.

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