Arrhythmias are almost universal obvious important disease condition which needs to be more focused because they carry a high mortality rate. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching module on knowledge regarding ECG changes in cardiac arrhythmias among staff nurses in Rama Hospital. A pre experimental one group pre test post test design was used for the study. A non probability convenient sampling technique was used. Sample size was 50. Self structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results shows that in knowledge scores at the time of pre test 78% of subjects were having poor knowledge 22% were having average knowledge and no one staff nurses were in good knowledge category. At the time of post test 70% of subjects were having average knowledge and 30% subjects were having good knowledge and no one staff nurses were in poor knowledge category. The test statistics value of the paired t test was 19.74 with p value 0.00. Shows that planned video assisted teaching module was effective. For the variables like qualification and work experience the p value of the association test with knowledge was less than 0.05 concludes that there was significant association of these demographic variables with knowledge of the staff nurses. The finding reveal that the video assisted teaching module was effective in increasing the knowledge of staff nurses.

arrhythmias, mortality, video assisted teaching module.