202A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAP TOP ASSISTED NURSING STRATEGIES ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF COMPLICATIONS OF IMMOBILITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH MAJOR ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMANurses are in a unique position to identify the level of knowledge, practice, about the orthopedic trauma and to help the patient to develop positive attitude to avoid those complications. As a patient advocate, it is the responsibility of the nurse to educate the patient about care of orthopedic trauma, complication of immobility, prevention of complication. The objective of the study was Evaluate the effectiveness of lap top assisted nursing strategies on knowledge among the major orthopedic trauma patient and associate selected back ground variables with knowledge. The finding revealed that the knowledge pre test-post test difference in mean is 10.50, difference in standard deviation is 2.32 and t value is 22.47 which are statistically significant at level of p< 0.001sathiya_osma@yahoo.co.inResearch532015Orthopedic trauma,Knowledge of fracture and ImmobilitySathiya K,Mohan Kumar, Prasanna baby,Jothi clara MichaelLecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.,Professor and senior consultant in orthopedics, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.,3Principal, Faculty of Nursing, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India., Group Director, Nursing Directorate, Global Hospital and Health City, Perumbakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India