Evaluation of Nurses/ Midwives' Knowledge and Skills Retention on Neonatal Resuscitation, in Obio Cottage Hospital

The study is aimed at evaluating Nurses'/Midwives' knowledge and skills retention on Neonatal resuscitation in Obio-Cottage Hospital Port Harcourt. A QUASI-Experimental Research Study was adopted for the study. The population for the study consist of nurses/midwives and volunteers currently working with Obio-Cottage Hospital Port Harcourt Rivers State. A validated self-structured instrument was adopted for data collection. Statistical Package for Social Science version 22.0 was used to analyse the data. Descriptive statistics were used as the data analysis method. Hence, a measure of central tendency statistics (mean), simple percentages and charts were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistical tool was used to test the null hypothesis 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that 20.9%, 52.2% and 26.9% were of the respondents were between ages 25-34, 35-44 and 45 and above years respectively. The educational qualifications, 61.2% of the respondents had RN/RM and 7.5% had BNSc. The mean score of knowledge at baseline was 1.63343±SD=2.13428 and Mean=7.6286±SD=1.89199 at P1-Post-intervention. Also, the mean score of the skill retention of nurse-midwives at baseline was Mean=1.47 ± SD=1.129 and Mean=3.74 ±SD=1.050 at P1-Post-intervention. There was a significant difference in the knowledge mean scores, t=22.429, p = 0.00 at P0 and P1, and in the skill mean scores, t=18.784 0 p = 0.00 at P0 and P1. The study concluded that nurses'/Midwives' knowledge and skills retention in Neonatal resuscitation in Obio-Cottage Hospital Port Harcourt were low. Therefore, the study recommends that time should be allotted for nurse midwives to attend seminars and training to improve their performance in new-born resuscitation.