Effectiveness of the nursing educational program upon nurse's knowledge and p...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science is ambitious to disseminate information and experience in education, practice and investigation between medicine, nursing and all the sciences involved in health care. Nursing & Health Sciences focuses on the international exchange of knowledge in nursing and health sciences. The journal publishes peer-reviewed papers on original research, education and clinical practice.
By encouraging scholars from around the world to share their knowledge and expertise, the journal aims to provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the lived experience of nursing and health sciences and the opportunity to enrich their own area of practice. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, special and general articles, case management etc.
Performance Evaluation of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge in Biomedi...iosrjce
Poor waste management policy, practice poses a huge risk to the health of the public, patient, and
professional. This all contribute to environmental degradation. In the present paper, an attempt is made to
determine the awareness about Biomedical Waste Management (B.M.W.M.)policy – practices. The main focus is
to assess the attitude of staff nurses towards it and to develop a B.M.W.M. plan for health care environmental
setting with special focus on selected hospitals. The improvement in the different knowledge areas of B.M.W.M.
has been observed after the post test session
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According to various reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a significant number of lives are lost each passing year due to the spread of infections in hospitals that could otherwise have been prevented. 3 Therefore, effort geared towards understanding infection control plays a significant role in reducing the otherwise unnecessary loss of lives. Infection control entails the power to directly prevent or determine the spread of infections with the aim of avoiding it. 4 Indeed, the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms has far-reaching consequences. While so much has been done to prevent its spread, there is still a lot more to be done. This research paper intends to focus on Healthcare-associated Infections and how it can be prevented if not eliminated altogether.
Statement of the Problem
Healthcare-Associated Infections are a common occurrence in the modern healthcare setting resulting in huge financial losses and loss of lives. According to the Office of Disease Prevention and Healthcare Promotion (ODPHP), these are infections that patients contract while receiving treatment in a medical facility. Percival, Suleman, Vuotto & Donelli, (2015) pointed out that its prevalence is as a result of the employment of invasive devices and procedures meant to treat patients and to help them recover. 6 While most of them are accidental in nature, they still remain to be seen as accidents that could have been prevented. The US government, through the establishment of Healthy People 2020 and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have taken a lead role in spreading the news on infection control. To that effect, recent research reveals that there could be a 70% reduction in infections by implementing existing prevention practices. This translates to a financial benefit estimated to be $31.5 billion in medical cost savings (ODPHP, 2019). Understanding these prevention measures should, therefore, be a priority to all healthcare practitioners. That is why this research study intends to shade more light on nosocomial infections. These are infections that occur within 48 hours upon admission into a hospital. They can also occur in three days of discharge or 30 days of operation. They affect one in every 10 patients admitted in a hospital. 5, 7
The rationale for addressing the issue
Addressing this issue is important to the health sector from a political, social as well as environmental perspective. As a matter of fact, its impact will be on a short term, interim basis and long term basis. Politically, health has always been a major subject of concern as it is used by voters to determine how best an administration has taken care of their needs. Establishing an infection contro.
Abstract—In India, communicable diseases account for nearly half of its disease burden. Nursing staff plays a major role in the health care delivery system; therefore their role in prevention of infectious diseases by taking care of universal precautions is very important. So this study was conducted aimed to know the status of universal precaution practices of nursing personnel of a tertiary care hospital of Rajasthan. 100 nursing professionals were interrogated and supervised for practice and as per a semi- structured schedule. It was concluded from this study that all nursing personals were washing hands after toilet and hands were washed properly but they were reluctant regarding every time washing hands before starting work, washing with antiseptic after contacting contaminated gauze, linen etc. Apron was weared by 89% but none was wearing mask while dealing with patients. And only 40% were wearing gloves while handling patient but none was changing gloves before handling new patient. It was also concluded that all the nursing personals were using sterile syringes and new syringe was taken every time for new patients which was destroyed after use but only 43% were wearing glove while taking out needle/syringes from its wrapper and only 29% nursing personals were recapping syringes after use. Proper disposal of syringes, soiled infected gauze, needles, I.V. Drip set and gloves was done by almost all nursing personals
Effectiveness of the nursing educational program upon nurse's knowledge and p...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science is ambitious to disseminate information and experience in education, practice and investigation between medicine, nursing and all the sciences involved in health care. Nursing & Health Sciences focuses on the international exchange of knowledge in nursing and health sciences. The journal publishes peer-reviewed papers on original research, education and clinical practice.
By encouraging scholars from around the world to share their knowledge and expertise, the journal aims to provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the lived experience of nursing and health sciences and the opportunity to enrich their own area of practice. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, special and general articles, case management etc.
Performance Evaluation of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge in Biomedi...iosrjce
Poor waste management policy, practice poses a huge risk to the health of the public, patient, and
professional. This all contribute to environmental degradation. In the present paper, an attempt is made to
determine the awareness about Biomedical Waste Management (B.M.W.M.)policy – practices. The main focus is
to assess the attitude of staff nurses towards it and to develop a B.M.W.M. plan for health care environmental
setting with special focus on selected hospitals. The improvement in the different knowledge areas of B.M.W.M.
has been observed after the post test session
18
Annotated Bibliography
3164 words
Rough Draft on Infection Control
by
Submitted to
Semester
Date
Contact
Address
Phone
Email
Infection Control
2
Introduction of the Paper
Background
According to various reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a significant number of lives are lost each passing year due to the spread of infections in hospitals that could otherwise have been prevented. 3 Therefore, effort geared towards understanding infection control plays a significant role in reducing the otherwise unnecessary loss of lives. Infection control entails the power to directly prevent or determine the spread of infections with the aim of avoiding it. 4 Indeed, the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms has far-reaching consequences. While so much has been done to prevent its spread, there is still a lot more to be done. This research paper intends to focus on Healthcare-associated Infections and how it can be prevented if not eliminated altogether.
Statement of the Problem
Healthcare-Associated Infections are a common occurrence in the modern healthcare setting resulting in huge financial losses and loss of lives. According to the Office of Disease Prevention and Healthcare Promotion (ODPHP), these are infections that patients contract while receiving treatment in a medical facility. Percival, Suleman, Vuotto & Donelli, (2015) pointed out that its prevalence is as a result of the employment of invasive devices and procedures meant to treat patients and to help them recover. 6 While most of them are accidental in nature, they still remain to be seen as accidents that could have been prevented. The US government, through the establishment of Healthy People 2020 and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have taken a lead role in spreading the news on infection control. To that effect, recent research reveals that there could be a 70% reduction in infections by implementing existing prevention practices. This translates to a financial benefit estimated to be $31.5 billion in medical cost savings (ODPHP, 2019). Understanding these prevention measures should, therefore, be a priority to all healthcare practitioners. That is why this research study intends to shade more light on nosocomial infections. These are infections that occur within 48 hours upon admission into a hospital. They can also occur in three days of discharge or 30 days of operation. They affect one in every 10 patients admitted in a hospital. 5, 7
The rationale for addressing the issue
Addressing this issue is important to the health sector from a political, social as well as environmental perspective. As a matter of fact, its impact will be on a short term, interim basis and long term basis. Politically, health has always been a major subject of concern as it is used by voters to determine how best an administration has taken care of their needs. Establishing an infection contro.
Abstract—In India, communicable diseases account for nearly half of its disease burden. Nursing staff plays a major role in the health care delivery system; therefore their role in prevention of infectious diseases by taking care of universal precautions is very important. So this study was conducted aimed to know the status of universal precaution practices of nursing personnel of a tertiary care hospital of Rajasthan. 100 nursing professionals were interrogated and supervised for practice and as per a semi- structured schedule. It was concluded from this study that all nursing personals were washing hands after toilet and hands were washed properly but they were reluctant regarding every time washing hands before starting work, washing with antiseptic after contacting contaminated gauze, linen etc. Apron was weared by 89% but none was wearing mask while dealing with patients. And only 40% were wearing gloves while handling patient but none was changing gloves before handling new patient. It was also concluded that all the nursing personals were using sterile syringes and new syringe was taken every time for new patients which was destroyed after use but only 43% were wearing glove while taking out needle/syringes from its wrapper and only 29% nursing personals were recapping syringes after use. Proper disposal of syringes, soiled infected gauze, needles, I.V. Drip set and gloves was done by almost all nursing personals
Article Type: Editorial
Title: Patient Safety: Paradigm shift of modern healthcare delivery and research
Year: 2022; Volume: 2; Issue: 1; Page No: 1 – 2
Author: Dr. Mohammed Imran
10.55349/ijmsnr.20222112
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Medical Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sohar, National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman.
Email ID: imran@nu.edu.om
Article Summary:
Submitted : 10-February-2022
Revised : 26-February-2022
Accepted : 12-March-2022
Published : 31-March-2022
It seems like you're describing the publication process of a journal or publication called . This information provides insight into the journal's commitment to a fast publication schedule while maintaining rigorous peer review of the journals in research.
The Indo-American Journal of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences appears to be a scholarly journal focused on publishing research within the fields of agriculture and veterinary sciences of the research journal.
Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of ICU Health Workers Regarding ...QUESTJOURNAL
Background: Nosocomial Infection is a localized or systemic infection acquired at any health care facility including hospitals by a patient admitted for any reason other than the pathology present during admission. Including an infection acquired in a healthcare facility that manifest 48 hours after the patient's admission or discharge. Objective: Themain aim of this study is toassess the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of ICU health personnel with regards to the spread of nosocomial infections. Methodology: A cross-sectional and facility based study was conducted from March to November 2016 at King Khalid hospital in Najran, Saudi Arabia. By adopting convenience technique, 50 subjects had been recruited to participate in this study. Results: 62% of respondentswere female. The mean age was 29 years. Concerning educational status, 54% of the participants have Bsc. professionally most of them (48%) were nurses. 60% of the participants have less than three year working experience in ICU.86% of them highlighted that hands must be washed with soap and water or even rubbed with alcohol before contacting with patients. Additionally, the result reveals that employees who had master degree or above displayed higher mean knowledge scores as compared to the other two groups (diploma or less & bachelor) (0.7147 & 4.6656) respectively. High significant statistical differences were found between the three academic groups in relation to sharp devices, personal protective equipment (gloves, gowns &masks), care of intravenous infusion therapy, central line care and urinary catheter care (F=4.594, F=7.982, F=5.539, F=4.471, F=15.310, F=4.345) respectively at p < 0.05. Recommendation & conclusion: Health workers in ICU (King Khalid hospital) showed adequate knowledge and faire attitude regarding universal precautions
Implementation of Patient Safety Program as a Prevention and Controlling Heal...irjes
Hospital is a unique working area bringing health risk for the worker either of patient or visitor.
Society who received health service, health worker and visitor in hospital faced to the risk of occurrence
infection or nosokomial infection now called as Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). The occurrence of
nosokomial infection in hospital is still on high level. The level of nosokomial infection in hospital for entire the
world showing improvement, it’s about 9% (variation 3 – 21 %) or more than 1.4 million inpatient spaces
(Depkes. 2009). The aimed of this study was to know the implementation of nosokomial infection prevention
program in supporting patient safety in Radjiman Wediodiningrat mental hospital.
Primer and secondary data was obtained from sanitation department and K3 of hospital, collected using
questionnaire interview sheet, polls, and observation using observation sheets. Data obtained using purposive
sampling technique. Data was analyzed by descriptive methode and presented into frequency distribution table.
The result of this research showed that Implementation of Patient safety in Outpatient and Inpatient mental
hospital of Wediodingrat Radjiman still less than optimal, infection Prevention and Control (PPI) at the
Outpatient and Inpatient room not been implemented. So It takes effort to improve the implementation of Patient
Safety in Outpatient and Inpatient especially in Anyelir, Napza, Camar, General clinic, Kemuning and VIP
room, required socialization, education and training on PPI programs in the room
12Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Inte.docxmoggdede
1
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Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Intervention
Anne Marie WouapetName
Walden University
NURS 8310 Section 03, Epidemiology and Population HealthClass
April 29, 2018Date
Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Intervention
Hospital-acquired infections have been determined throughout this project to be a significant problem in the United States health care system. Epidemiologic data show that there is still a considerable number of patients who die as a result of infections that they have acquired while receiving care (Umscheid et al., 2011). The older population was found to be at a higher risk of acquiring these infections because of their deteriorating immune systems (Sievert et al., 2013). Therefore, a proposed intervention to eliminate the dangers of infection was created. The intervention proposes that nurses go through hand washing education for an extended period to enhance their compliance to hand hygiene after the education program. In studying the potential impacts of this intervention, it was determined that hand washing education is usually effective in changing perceptions and behaviors with regards to hand hygiene, but the compliance to what has been learned is often not maintained. Therefore, this intervention suggests that the education is based on the practice environment and that the nurses are monitored for an extended period. The following is an evaluation plan aiming at assessing the potential outcomes of the proposed intervention.
Evaluation Plan
This evaluation plan is designed to assess the expected outcomes from the implementation of the program (Friis & Sellers, 2014). This plan will investigate the extent to which the hand washing intervention plan will help to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired in infections in the healthcare facilities in which the intervention will be implemented. The plan includes an evaluation of the short-term, medium-term, and long-term changes expected to occur after the implementation of the intervention.
Stakeholders Involved in the Intervention
For the expected outcome to be achieved, the following stakeholders will be required to participate in the intervention program. Evaluating the participation of the stakeholders is essential in determining their contribution to the outcome of the program (Centers for Disease Control, 2011). The program will require the participation of the Director of Nursing, who will be responsible for guiding the nurses included in the intervention to ensure that they participate in the program as required. The intervention will also require the participation of the Directors of the respective health care facilities where the intervention will be implemented to ensure that they provide the resources needed for the program to be implemented and approve the use of the hospital data to evaluate the outcomes of the program. The hospitals included will also need to employ super ...
Hand Hygiene: Impact of Educational Training and Awareness Programmeiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences is one of the speciality Journal in Dental Science and Medical Science published by International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR). The Journal publishes papers of the highest scientific merit and widest possible scope work in all areas related to medical and dental science. The Journal welcome review articles, leading medical and clinical research articles, technical notes, case reports and others.
Trends shaping corporate health in the workplaceApollo Hospitals
The paradigm for corporate health is morphing from traditional curative services to health protection and promotion. An epidemic of “lifestyle diseases” has developed in the India which warrants an organized integration of company's health, safety and environment policy through a directed wellness program. The current study explored the burden and determinants of lifestyle diseases among an organization.
Running head hand hygiene compliance1hand hygiene compliance8.docxwlynn1
Running head: hand hygiene compliance1
hand hygiene compliance8Hand Hygiene Education Implementation and Nurses Compliance in Reducing Nosocomial Infections
Grand Canyon University NRS-490
March 31, 2019
Background
Hygiene is a very crucial factor in prevention of infection in any health care facility. Also, compliance of handwashing ensures patients safety, aids in the treatment and recovery of hospitalized patients. Hand hygiene is important action performed by healthcare works to prevent transmission of healthcare associated infection (Smiddy, O’Connell & Creedon, 2015). Health care professionals such as doctors, nurses, physical therapist and laboratory technicians, take the responsibility of providing efficient, effective and quality care that will improve the health of their patients.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the change proposal project components the author has been working on throughout the course. The goal of health care works rendering a quality, effective and efficient care to their patient in the health care setting will be difficult to achieve if the rate handwashing adherence is below expectation. Unclean healthcare environments harbor germs that can cause disease, thereby placing the patient at risk of developing infection instead of recovering from their present health condition. Healthcare providers inability to comply with hand hygiene is one the main reason patient develop hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Healthcare employees have the lives of patient in their hands therefore, hand hygiene should not by any means be neglected or dominated out in any healthcare facility.
Approximately 250 health care specialists in a Metro Detroit facility happened to be watched and assessed directly; prior to the start of the exercise, participants were selected based on their hand washing comprehension and compliance. Partakers expresses that they observed improvement on handwashing practices and that most nurses complied to hand washing guidelines evidenced by some significant reductions in the rate of transmission of HAIs within the healthcare facility. HAIs are the infections a patient acquire during the period of hospitalization. The result of the research showed a huge decrease in the spread of nosocomial infections due to progress of hand hygiene training and nurses’ compliance to handwashing protocols. These infections mostly manifest during or after 48 hours of admission or thirty days after discharge from the hospital or health-care facility. The author of this research study sees HAIs as a dangerous disease with many complications. Because inadequate handwashing practices by healthcare workers are the main cause of spread of hospital acquire infections, it is important to educate staff members on proper hand hygiene, implement plan to encourage hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare settings. Blood-stream, ulcers / surgical wounds, CAUTI and respiratory infections are the most common types of HA.
A Study to Assess the Knowledge and Practices of Hand Hygiene among Nursing S...ijtsrd
Topic A study to assess the Knowledge, And Practice of Hand Hygiene among Nursing Staff in different department of the Hospitals in Uttar Pradesh. Background of the study Health care associated infections persist as amajor problem in health care settings especially Intensive Care Units. Hand hygiene is the most simple and effective method for the prevention of these healthcare associated infections. So, assess the reported hand hygiene practices and observing is very much important to find out gaps, plan remedial measure to reduce HAIs. Hand hygiene practice is still burdened by inadequate compliance, whether in the professional sphere by health professionals or in the non professional sphere by lay population Aims of the study A. To assess the hand hygiene practices among nurses B. To assess the reason for non compliance. Material and method This study was conducted in different department of Fatima hospital. It was an observational, study50 different professional categories nurses were taken for observational study, 50 for assess the reported hand hygiene practices. Questionnaire and observation tool were used for data collection. Result The study revealed that there is a corelation between the knowledge and the practices of hand hygiene among the nurses. The overall observed compliance was 58 50 nurses included in observation study, 308 number of opportunities are given only 180opportunities of hand hygiene being performed . The BSc nurses shows higher compliance rate 93.4 . The GNM nurses show 64 and the ANM show low rate 60 . The reported hand hygiene compliance among Questionnaire given to50 Nurses they were may or may not be included in observation study . Conclusion There were two studies conducted by the investigator. The observational study and reported study. The observational study shows that the overall hand hygiene compliance was58 and the reported study give more than 93.4 of compliance among different categories of nurses. The investigator found that the overall observed hand hygiene compliance among nurses was 58.4 , from that BSC Nurses have performed better. They reported the reason for noncompliance was that they were too busy 64 . Sister Ancy Varghese | Dr. Priyanka Chaudhary | Mrs. Ramanpreet Kaur "A Study to Assess the Knowledge and Practices of Hand Hygiene among Nursing Staff in Different Department of the Hospitals in Uttar Pradesh" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-1 , December 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47804.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/47804/a-study-to-assess-the-knowledge-and-practices-of-hand-hygiene-among-nursing-staff-in-different-department-of-the-hospitals-in-uttar-pradesh/sister-ancy-varghese
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Article Type: Editorial
Title: Patient Safety: Paradigm shift of modern healthcare delivery and research
Year: 2022; Volume: 2; Issue: 1; Page No: 1 – 2
Author: Dr. Mohammed Imran
10.55349/ijmsnr.20222112
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Medical Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sohar, National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman.
Email ID: imran@nu.edu.om
Article Summary:
Submitted : 10-February-2022
Revised : 26-February-2022
Accepted : 12-March-2022
Published : 31-March-2022
It seems like you're describing the publication process of a journal or publication called . This information provides insight into the journal's commitment to a fast publication schedule while maintaining rigorous peer review of the journals in research.
The Indo-American Journal of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences appears to be a scholarly journal focused on publishing research within the fields of agriculture and veterinary sciences of the research journal.
Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of ICU Health Workers Regarding ...QUESTJOURNAL
Background: Nosocomial Infection is a localized or systemic infection acquired at any health care facility including hospitals by a patient admitted for any reason other than the pathology present during admission. Including an infection acquired in a healthcare facility that manifest 48 hours after the patient's admission or discharge. Objective: Themain aim of this study is toassess the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of ICU health personnel with regards to the spread of nosocomial infections. Methodology: A cross-sectional and facility based study was conducted from March to November 2016 at King Khalid hospital in Najran, Saudi Arabia. By adopting convenience technique, 50 subjects had been recruited to participate in this study. Results: 62% of respondentswere female. The mean age was 29 years. Concerning educational status, 54% of the participants have Bsc. professionally most of them (48%) were nurses. 60% of the participants have less than three year working experience in ICU.86% of them highlighted that hands must be washed with soap and water or even rubbed with alcohol before contacting with patients. Additionally, the result reveals that employees who had master degree or above displayed higher mean knowledge scores as compared to the other two groups (diploma or less & bachelor) (0.7147 & 4.6656) respectively. High significant statistical differences were found between the three academic groups in relation to sharp devices, personal protective equipment (gloves, gowns &masks), care of intravenous infusion therapy, central line care and urinary catheter care (F=4.594, F=7.982, F=5.539, F=4.471, F=15.310, F=4.345) respectively at p < 0.05. Recommendation & conclusion: Health workers in ICU (King Khalid hospital) showed adequate knowledge and faire attitude regarding universal precautions
Implementation of Patient Safety Program as a Prevention and Controlling Heal...irjes
Hospital is a unique working area bringing health risk for the worker either of patient or visitor.
Society who received health service, health worker and visitor in hospital faced to the risk of occurrence
infection or nosokomial infection now called as Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). The occurrence of
nosokomial infection in hospital is still on high level. The level of nosokomial infection in hospital for entire the
world showing improvement, it’s about 9% (variation 3 – 21 %) or more than 1.4 million inpatient spaces
(Depkes. 2009). The aimed of this study was to know the implementation of nosokomial infection prevention
program in supporting patient safety in Radjiman Wediodiningrat mental hospital.
Primer and secondary data was obtained from sanitation department and K3 of hospital, collected using
questionnaire interview sheet, polls, and observation using observation sheets. Data obtained using purposive
sampling technique. Data was analyzed by descriptive methode and presented into frequency distribution table.
The result of this research showed that Implementation of Patient safety in Outpatient and Inpatient mental
hospital of Wediodingrat Radjiman still less than optimal, infection Prevention and Control (PPI) at the
Outpatient and Inpatient room not been implemented. So It takes effort to improve the implementation of Patient
Safety in Outpatient and Inpatient especially in Anyelir, Napza, Camar, General clinic, Kemuning and VIP
room, required socialization, education and training on PPI programs in the room
12Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Inte.docxmoggdede
1
2
Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Intervention
Anne Marie WouapetName
Walden University
NURS 8310 Section 03, Epidemiology and Population HealthClass
April 29, 2018Date
Plan for Evaluating the Impact of the Intervention
Hospital-acquired infections have been determined throughout this project to be a significant problem in the United States health care system. Epidemiologic data show that there is still a considerable number of patients who die as a result of infections that they have acquired while receiving care (Umscheid et al., 2011). The older population was found to be at a higher risk of acquiring these infections because of their deteriorating immune systems (Sievert et al., 2013). Therefore, a proposed intervention to eliminate the dangers of infection was created. The intervention proposes that nurses go through hand washing education for an extended period to enhance their compliance to hand hygiene after the education program. In studying the potential impacts of this intervention, it was determined that hand washing education is usually effective in changing perceptions and behaviors with regards to hand hygiene, but the compliance to what has been learned is often not maintained. Therefore, this intervention suggests that the education is based on the practice environment and that the nurses are monitored for an extended period. The following is an evaluation plan aiming at assessing the potential outcomes of the proposed intervention.
Evaluation Plan
This evaluation plan is designed to assess the expected outcomes from the implementation of the program (Friis & Sellers, 2014). This plan will investigate the extent to which the hand washing intervention plan will help to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired in infections in the healthcare facilities in which the intervention will be implemented. The plan includes an evaluation of the short-term, medium-term, and long-term changes expected to occur after the implementation of the intervention.
Stakeholders Involved in the Intervention
For the expected outcome to be achieved, the following stakeholders will be required to participate in the intervention program. Evaluating the participation of the stakeholders is essential in determining their contribution to the outcome of the program (Centers for Disease Control, 2011). The program will require the participation of the Director of Nursing, who will be responsible for guiding the nurses included in the intervention to ensure that they participate in the program as required. The intervention will also require the participation of the Directors of the respective health care facilities where the intervention will be implemented to ensure that they provide the resources needed for the program to be implemented and approve the use of the hospital data to evaluate the outcomes of the program. The hospitals included will also need to employ super ...
Hand Hygiene: Impact of Educational Training and Awareness Programmeiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences is one of the speciality Journal in Dental Science and Medical Science published by International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR). The Journal publishes papers of the highest scientific merit and widest possible scope work in all areas related to medical and dental science. The Journal welcome review articles, leading medical and clinical research articles, technical notes, case reports and others.
Trends shaping corporate health in the workplaceApollo Hospitals
The paradigm for corporate health is morphing from traditional curative services to health protection and promotion. An epidemic of “lifestyle diseases” has developed in the India which warrants an organized integration of company's health, safety and environment policy through a directed wellness program. The current study explored the burden and determinants of lifestyle diseases among an organization.
Running head hand hygiene compliance1hand hygiene compliance8.docxwlynn1
Running head: hand hygiene compliance1
hand hygiene compliance8Hand Hygiene Education Implementation and Nurses Compliance in Reducing Nosocomial Infections
Grand Canyon University NRS-490
March 31, 2019
Background
Hygiene is a very crucial factor in prevention of infection in any health care facility. Also, compliance of handwashing ensures patients safety, aids in the treatment and recovery of hospitalized patients. Hand hygiene is important action performed by healthcare works to prevent transmission of healthcare associated infection (Smiddy, O’Connell & Creedon, 2015). Health care professionals such as doctors, nurses, physical therapist and laboratory technicians, take the responsibility of providing efficient, effective and quality care that will improve the health of their patients.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the change proposal project components the author has been working on throughout the course. The goal of health care works rendering a quality, effective and efficient care to their patient in the health care setting will be difficult to achieve if the rate handwashing adherence is below expectation. Unclean healthcare environments harbor germs that can cause disease, thereby placing the patient at risk of developing infection instead of recovering from their present health condition. Healthcare providers inability to comply with hand hygiene is one the main reason patient develop hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Healthcare employees have the lives of patient in their hands therefore, hand hygiene should not by any means be neglected or dominated out in any healthcare facility.
Approximately 250 health care specialists in a Metro Detroit facility happened to be watched and assessed directly; prior to the start of the exercise, participants were selected based on their hand washing comprehension and compliance. Partakers expresses that they observed improvement on handwashing practices and that most nurses complied to hand washing guidelines evidenced by some significant reductions in the rate of transmission of HAIs within the healthcare facility. HAIs are the infections a patient acquire during the period of hospitalization. The result of the research showed a huge decrease in the spread of nosocomial infections due to progress of hand hygiene training and nurses’ compliance to handwashing protocols. These infections mostly manifest during or after 48 hours of admission or thirty days after discharge from the hospital or health-care facility. The author of this research study sees HAIs as a dangerous disease with many complications. Because inadequate handwashing practices by healthcare workers are the main cause of spread of hospital acquire infections, it is important to educate staff members on proper hand hygiene, implement plan to encourage hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare settings. Blood-stream, ulcers / surgical wounds, CAUTI and respiratory infections are the most common types of HA.
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1. PROPOSAL DEFENCE
ON
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF NURSES TOWARDS
PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD IN TOWNSHIP CLINIC
AND DAGIRI PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER GWAGWALADA, FCT
BY
ABDULSALAM RUKAYYA
EXAM NUMBER: 5094
F.C.T COLLEGE OF NURSING SCIENCES, GWAGWALADA, ABUJA
MRS JIMI BADA
1
2. OUTLINE
Background to the Study
Statement of the Problem
Objective of the Study
Research Questions
Significance of the Study
Theoretical Review
Methodology
Ethical Consideration
Questionnaire
References
2
3. CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
By profession, healthcare workers (HCWs) attend to clients and patients through a variety of
preventive and curative services. However, while their attention is focused on providing care,
they are vulnerable to hazards that could be detrimental' to their health and well-being. In
recent years, it has become apparent that health care workers are exposed to a variety of
occupational hazards that can result in serious acute and long -term adverse health outcomes
(Simon, 2020).
Occupational hazards refer to workplace activities that have the potential to cause/increase the
risk of injury or ill health. Occupational safety is the control of hazards in the work place to
achieve an acceptable level of risk, while workplace safety generally refers to the process of
protecting the health and safety of staff while on the job, irrespective of vocation.
In nursing, the situation is complicated because of the high demand on quality nursing
nursing care, most nurses do not have adequate knowledge on the assessment of
hazards when they occur, others may not apply protective measures properly even if
they know (Ajayi, 2016).
3
4. Background of the Study Cont’d
The hazards in HCFs are classified by WHO (2016) into physical, biological,
mechanical, ergonomic, chemical and psycho-social. The predominant hazards to
HCWs include blood-borne infections (Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV)], back and neck pain, burn-out
stress, allergic reactions to latex materials, spills from chemicals, exposure to radiation,
assault from patients; among others.
The factors that contribute to occupational illnesses and injuries in HCFs include
negligence and carelessness of health care workers, lack of adequate protective aids
and equipment, inadequate number of staff, excessive workload, failure to observe
basic safety and hygiene guidelines, and inadequate operational knowledge of modern
healthcare equipment
In View of this worrying situation, this researcher intends to conduct a study on the
knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards.
4
5. 1.2 Statement of the Problem
The world health organization (2016) in its reports estimated occupational diseases
worldwide to be 217 million cases. In nursing, evidence shows that many of these
diseases E.g. HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, tuberculosis etc. are preventable but problems
like under reporting, poor surveillance and several other factors that have been
known to influence occupational hazards (Fasunloro A.Owotade, 2004).
Generally there is great risk to occupational hazards. The major challenges are
absence and dissemination of written occupational health and safety measures
policies for each department and wards, safety committee, organized time of
training on safety rules and inadequate provision of personal protective equipment.
Therefore, it is the intention of this research study to examine the knowledge,
attitude and practice of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards
in,Township clinic and Dagiri primary health care Center.
5
6. 1.3 Objective of the Study
To assess the knowledge of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards.
To assess the attitude of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards.
To assess the practice of preventive measures of occupational hazards among nurse
s.
6
7. 1.4 Research Questions
What is the knowledge of prevention of occupational hazards among nurses?
What are attitudes of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards?
What are the practices of preventive measures of occupational hazards among
nurses?
7
8. 1.5 Significance of the Study
This finding will help to eliminate various occupational hazards in the acts of nursin
g. The finding will also provide the health care providers the tools to identifying an
d preventing occupational hazards in work place.
The finding of application of the knowledge gained from this study concerning occu
pational hazards and other elements surrounding it will help in improving the qualit
y of life of the society at large.
This finding will encourage participants to improve upon their shortcomings in prac
tices done to provide a safe working environment.
This finding will also provide more information on the knowledge, attitude and prac
tice of nurses towards prevention of occupational hazards and also serve as a basis f
or future research.
8
9. CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter of the study will review relevant literatures under the following
headings:
Conceptual Review
Theoretical Review
Empirical Review
9
10. 2.2 Theoretical Framework
The study seeks to adopt Florence Nghtingale Environmental Theory.
Florence Nightingale (1860/1969) often considered as the first nursing theorist,
defined Nursing as "the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him
in the recovery". She linked health with five environmental factors.
Pure or fresh air
Pure water
Efficient drainage
Cleanliness or Sanitation
Light or direct sunlight
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12. 2.2.1 Application of the theory to the Study
Cleanliness or Sanitation: The hospital environment must maintain a high level
of cleanliness and sterility. There should be proper management of various
wastes, prevent exposure to toxic agents, uses of personal protective equipment.
Pure or fresh air: The hospital environment must be maintained at adequate
ventilation. Install air conditioning to reduce heat, stress and odors, gas and
vapor, likewise overcrowding must also or be avoided.
Light or Direct Sunlight: There should be adequate source of light at all time in
the preoperative environments so as to allow for proper illumination.
Efficient drainage: The hospital wards must be well equipped with well, good
drainage facility. This assist with effective management of liquid or fluid waste.
Examples include various sinks in the scrub up room and different drains in the
disposal room. Ensure functioning and patency of outflows or pipes.
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13. Application of the Theory to the Study Cont’d
Pure water: Adequate supply of water in the wards and operating Suite must be
ensured at all times. Availability of water allow for.
effective scrubbing and proper hand washing before and after each procedure. This
minimizes the risk of cross infection.
Contemporary nursing practice requires continuous learning about the new hazards
introduced as technology advances and communicable diseases become greater
risks. Consistent utilization of recommended safety measures and uses of
preventive measures in order to minimize and prevent occupation exposure must be
ensured
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14. CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
This Chapter Consists of:
research Design
Setting
target Population
sample
sampling Technique
instruments for Data Collection
validity
reliability of the instrument
method of Data Collection
method of Data Analysis
ethical Consideration
14
15. 3.1 Research Design
The study will use descriptive designs because it describes a phenomenon as it occ
urred in this case. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurses toward prevention
of occupational hazard in township clinic and Dagiri primary health care center Ab
uja.
15
16. 3.2 Settings
The area of this research will be township clinic and Dagiri primary health care center Gwagwalada
Abuja.
Township clinic is the oldest clinic in Gwagwalada area council Abuja. It was build in 1982 with a
bed capacity of 12 and sited in the heart of Gwagwalada about 1km from Aguma's palace.
The clinic has staff strength of 20, which includes nurses , midwife, Doctor, Laboratory technician
and attendant
Dagiri Primary health care center Gwagwalada Abuja is a geographically located within
Gwagwalada Area council. Dagiri primary health care center was officially commissioned by
senator ( Dr ) Muhammad Adamu Alero HON Minister of the FCT Mr. Jibril Saliu Haske on
Tuesday 23rd February 2010.
The clinic has staff strength of 16 which includes the Nurses and Midwife.
16
17. 3.3 Target Population
This is the total population the researcher seeks to gather information from.
The total population of all the health care workers of Township clinic and Dagiri
primary health care center will be used, which is 36.
17
18. 3.4 Sample Size
The entire population will be used because the target population size is
small. (Hammaberg 2016).
18
19. 3.6 Instrument for Data Collection
Data will be collected using a research form questionnaire designed and
structured by the researcher. It comprises four (4 )sections;
SECTION A: Involves the socio-demographic data.
SECTION B: Deals with the assessment of knowledge of nurses to
wards prevention of occupational hazards.
SECTION C: Assesses the attitudes of nurses towards prevention of
occupational hazards.
SECTION D: Assesses the practices of preventive measures of occu
pational hazards among nurses.
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20. 3.7 Validity of the Instrument
Questionnaire will be given to classmate and senior
nurses in the hospital, after which the questionnaire will
be given to the researcher's supervisor for face and
content validity.
3.8 Reliability of the Study
To determine the reliability of instrument, test re-test
method of reliability will be used.
Ten (10) questionnaire will be given to nurses in Dabi
bako primary health care.
Dabi bako is chosen because it has the same
characteristics as township clinic and Dagiri primary
health care.
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21. 3.10 Method of Data Analysis
The results will be organized and presented in frequency tables and
percentage using the Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).
Results will be interpreted and presented using descriptive statistics
of frequency distribution and percentage tables and mean values for
Likert scale questions.
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22. 3.11 Ethical Consideration
Letter of introduction will be obtained from the principal FCT school of Nursing,
Gwagwalada which will be taking to Gwagwalada Area council Abuja for ethical approval.
Consent will be obtained from the participants after giving them full information about the
research, opportunity Will be giving to them whether to participate or not.
Confidentiality and anonymity will be ensured as such names of the respondents are not
required.
22
23. REFERENCES
Ajayi AD, Garba SN, Abdul AJ, Mfuh A. (2016). Use of protective devices and occupational hazards
among nurses in ABUTH, Zaria. West Afr J Nurs. 17(1):14.
Fasunloro A, Owotade FJ. (2014) Occupational hazards among clinical dental staff.J Contemporary Dental
Pract. 5(2):134–52.
Khoso A. T., Nafsee R. T. (2017).Determinants of knowledge and safety practices of occupational hazards
of textile dye workers in Sokoto, Nigeria: a descriptive analytic study.
https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2017.664
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24. REFERENCES CONT’D
Orji EO, Fasubaa OB, Onwudiegwu U, Dare FO, Ogunniyi SO. (2016) Occupational health hazards among
health care workers in an obstetrics and gynaecology unit of a Nigerian teaching hospital. J ObstetGynaecol.
22(1):75–8.
World Health Organization (2016). Health and environment in sustainable development report, Retrieved
from https:/www.who.int/whr/2011/whr07_en.pdf
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25. QUESTIONNAIRE
Dear Respondents,
I am a final year student of FCT College of Nursing Science Gwagwalada, Abuja conducting my rese
arch on knowledge, attitudes and practices of Nurses towards prevention of occupational hazard in
Township clinic and Dagiri primary health care center Gwagwalada, FCT. The study is solely for acad
emic and information given here shall be treated with utmost confidentiality. You are therefore kin
dly requested to give an appropriate answer to the questions contained in the questionnaire.
Thank you.
25
26. SECTION A: Socio-demographic Information
Instruction: Please tick (√) the most appropriate option
1. Age: (a) 20-29 ( ) (b) 30-39 ( ) (c) 40 years and above ( )
2. Sex: (a) Male ( ) (b) Female ( )
3. Religion: (a) Islam ( )(b) Christianity ( )(c) Others ( )
4. Marital Status: (a) Married ( ) (b) Single ( ) (c) Divorced ( ) (d) Widowed ( )
5. Professional qualification: (a) RN ( ) (b) RN, RM ( ) (c) RM (d) RN, BNSc ( ) (e) Others ( )
6. Working experience: (a) 1-5 years ( )(b) 6-10 years ( )(c) 11- 15 years ( )
( d) 16 years and above ( )
26
27. SECTION B: Knowledge of Nurses on Occupational Hazards
Instruction: please tick (√) the most appropriate option
7. Have you heard about occupational hazard? (a ) Yes ( ) ( b ) No( )
8. If yes, what is occupational hazard? ( a ) it refers to the injuries , accident, Disease, and illness that nurses c
ould contact in the course of rendering nursing care ( ). ( b ) it refers to what nurses do in there working plac
e( ) ( c ) it refers to what nurses enjoy in there working place ( )
9 . Have you heard about prevention of occupational hazard? ( a) Yes ( )(b) No ( )
10. If yes, what are the ways to prevent occupational hazard? (a )by using personal protective equipment ( ) . (
b ) by recapping the needle( ). ( c ) by not washing of the hand ( ).
11. prevention of occupational hazard is beneficiary to? (a) the nurses and midwife ( )(b) nurses and patient
alone ( ) ( c ) cleaners , patient and patient relatives ( )
12. Did you know how to use first aid equipment during clinical training. ( a) yes ( ) (b ) No ( ).
27
28. SECTION C: attitudes of nurses towards prevention of
occupational hazards.
Note: Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A ) , Undecided (U) , Disagree (D), Strongly Disagre
e (SD). Please tick (√) the most appropriate option:
S/N STATEMEN
TS
SA A U D SD
13. The training a
rea is safe
14. Believe that h
aving clear saf
ety rules redu
ce the rate of
accident in a
work place.
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29. Section C Cont’d
15. In hospital I ca
re about the sa
fety of others.
16 Feel safe when
I work with my
colleagues in a t
eam.
17 Reporting the in
cident of occup
ational hazards
is necessary.
29
30. SECTION D: practices of preventive measures of occupational
hazards among nurses.
Do you think occupational hazards can be prevented by practicing or implementing the
following?.
S/N STATEMEN
TS
SA A U D SD
19 Wear a hospita
l coat to protec
t my clothes d
uring the traini
ng
20 Wash your han
d when startin
g work
30
31. Section D Cont’d
21 Wash your hands if you touc
h blood or any fluids or secr
etion of patients body with s
oap and water
22 Wash your hand at the end of t
he training day
23 Use the safety box to dispose
of needles scalpels
24 Separate the needle from the s
yringe before disposal
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