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This study was carried out to determine the knowledge and level of implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness by nurses in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State. Three (3) specific objectives and one (1) hypothesis were formulated to guide the study.  A self-structured questionnaire was used to carry out a non-experimental descriptive survey on 109 respondents using the convenience sampling technique. Reliability and the validity of the instrument were ascertained. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequencies and percentages for the research questions and inferential statistics of chi-square test for hypothesis. The result of the study showed that 26 (23.85%) of the respondents had good knowledge of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, 48 (44.04%) had fair knowledge while 35 (32.11%) had poor knowledge. It also showed that 35 (32.11%) of the respondents rated the level of implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness as high, 51 (46.79%) rated it moderate while 23 (21.10%) rated it low. The result of the analysis showed that “there is no significant relationship between nurses’ knowledge and the level of implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness” since the x2 calculated equaling 1.0335 is less than the x2 tabulated equaling 9.4880. It is therefore recommended that intensive training sessions be made available to nurses in order to adequately acquaint them with the core essence of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.

This a community based study of prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in pregnancy carried out in three selected health centres in Idea to south LGA of Imo state. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the areas of study as well as the 120 participants used for the study. A checklist was used to collect the socio-demographic data of the subjects within the age range of 16-40years. Venous blood sample of the subjects were collected from the subjects and examined for presence of malaria parasites using standard procedures of haemoglobin and packed cell volume. Seventy-eight (66.7%) tested positive to malaria parasite with the highest prevalence occurring in the third trimester (79.2%). Also, the distribution of occurrence in different gravidity groups observed the highest prevalence occurrence amongst the primigravidae (71.0%), followed by secundigravidae (63.2%) and multigravidae (40.0%). The result shows reduction in both the PCV and HB levels of the pregnant women indicating anaemia especially in their third trimester. The chi-square statistics indicated that there is a significant relationship between age and malaria parasitaemia among pregnant women, (x 2 =1.84, df=4, p =0.05). The null hypothesis was therefore rejected at 0.05 alpha level.

The study determined the knowledge and compliance with standard precautionary measures among nurses in Madonna University Teaching Hospital Elele (MUTH) Rivers State. Two (2) research questions based on the two (2) objectives were formulated. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The sample for the study consisted of 102 nurses working in Madonna University Teaching Hospital Elele in Rivers State. The main instrument used for data collection was a self structured questionnaire distributed to the nurses in their different wards and units of MUTH, Elele. The self structured questionnaire was validated by experts in the field. The reliability of the instrument was established through test re-test method outside the study population which yielded a high positive correlation of 0.86. The data was collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages. Based on the findings, the study revealed that out of 92 respondents, 89 (96.7%) of the respondents have good knowledge of standard precaution, 80 (86.96%) comply with standard precautionary measures. The hypothesis was tested, there was no significant relationship between years of service and compliance with the standard precautionary measures (2, .05, p=.425). The null hypothesis was not rejected at .05 alpha level It was concluded that knowledge and compliance with standard precautionary measures among nurses in MUTH was good. In recommendation, the factors that promote compliance should be encouraged.