The Impact of Health Education Intervention on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice for Preventing Infection in Operating Rooms in Zagazig University Hospitals | ||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 5, Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2012, 2012, Pages 71-86 PDF (149 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/znj.2012.38872 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mona Emad Eldien Hussien1; Salwa Abbass Ali2; Amany Rashad Aboel- Seoud3; Amany Sobhy Sorour4 | ||
| 1Assistant lecturer, community health nursing department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University | ||
| 2Prof. of Community Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing-Zagazig University | ||
| 3Prof. of Community Medicine - Faculty of Medicine- Zagazig University | ||
| 4Assistant Prof. of Community Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Zagazig University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Infection is one of the major problems in the operating rooms. Many studies showed that nurses are dangerously exposed to many hazards; such as needle stick and sharps injuries with high incidence in the operating room due to many factors such as lack of experience, cross infection, and work overload. Nurses need more attention for ensuring effective compliance with universal precautions. Aim of study: Assess nurses' knowledge and practice about universal precautions, plan and implement health education program for nurses about universal precautions and evaluate the impact of health education on nurses' knowledge and practice about universal precautions. Setting: emergency hospital (ambulatory surgery unit), and new surgery hospital. Study sample: consists of 70 nurses, 30 nurses from the operating rooms in the emergency hospital and 40 nurses from operating rooms in the new surgery hospital. A quasi – experimental design was used in this study. Tools: included questionnaire sheet about nurses' demographic characteristics and their knowledge about universal precautions, an observational checklist for assessing practice and health education program. Results: the study findings showed statistical significant relationship between nurses' knowledge related to infection cycle pre & post program, (p<0.05), universal precautions pre post program, (p = 0.000), waste management pre & post program, (p<0.005), role of scrub and circulatory nurse and their personal characteristics pre post program (p=0.000). Regarding nurses' observed practice most of nurses practiced its items correctly pre program and improved post program. (p=0.000). Conclusion: from the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that nurses' knowledge level was low concerning most of the items such as infection cycle, disinfection and sterilization pre program among both groups of nurses (study & control) and increased post program among the intervention group. The study recommended that all nurses must be medically checked up periodically; and continuous in-service training should be conducted for nurses related to infection control in operating rooms. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Infection; operating room; universal precautions; ambulatory surgery | ||
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