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Attitude And Practice Of Standard Precautions Among Healthcare Workers
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1.9 PROBLEM STATEMENT
Nurses get in contact with
patients on a daily basis, so they are exposed to sharp injuries and
many types of infections due to the nature of their occupation. It is
important to follow standard precautions to reduce transmission of
infections. In Palestine, despite of the availability of protocol for
infection control in hospitals, it is applicable in varied degree from
hospital to hospital. In addition, after reviewing documents from
Palestinian Health Information Centre in MOH, it doesn’t have any
statistics regarding nurses’ knowledge and practice of SP measures and
those related to SI among health care workers. In addition, it doesn’t
have any statistics regarding health care workers who have SI or who
acquired infection during work. As an expected outcome , this study will
identify the importance of nurses’ knowledge about SP measures and
those related to SI. Also it will highlight the size of problem of stick
injuries among workers during work.
1.10 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY:
This
research, the first of its kind to be done in governmental hospitals in
West Bank, to assesses knowledge and practice of SP measures and those
related to SI among health care workers. Globally, many studies have
been conducted about knowledge and practice of SP measures and those
related to sharp injuries. Safety of Nurses and patients is considered
an important issue in controlling and limiting the transmission of
infectious disease between health care providers and patients. Following
such standard precautions, which are easy and simple, would reduce the
transmission of many types of contagious disease, thus reducing the
economic burden of treating these diseases.
This study also
calculated SI and NSI among participants. It is important to know
prevalence of SI and NSI because needle sticks and sharps injuries
represent a significant hazard in professional health care providers
and exposure to blood and body fluid has been considered as part of
nurses’ job. It is expected that this study will play an important role
in highlighting the importance of knowledge and compliance with SP among
health care workers during daily work. It is also expected to highlight
the size of the problem of SI and NSI.
1.11 OBJECTIVES
Main objective :
To
assess health care worker’ knowledge and compliance with standard
precaution measures and those related to sharp injuries and their
compliance with those related standard precautions.
Specific objectives :
To compare mean of score of knowledge about standard precaution
measures and those related to SI among different educational
level of health care workers in federal teaching hospital, Edo-ekiti.
2.To
compare mean of score of practice of standard precaution measures and
those related to SI among different educational level of health care
workers in federal teaching hospital, Edo-ekiti .
3.To identify the
correlation between health care workers’ knowledge and their practices
of standard precaution measures in federal.
4.To identify the
correlation between health care workers’ knowledge and their practices
of standard precaution measures related to sharp injuries.
5.To
identify level of health care workers’ knowledge of SP measures, those
related to SI which might be attributed to variables of years of
experience, place of work and gender of participants.
6.To estimate the prevalence of sharp injuries and needle stick injuries among nurses in the target hospitals.
7.To identify the percentage of needles sticks as a result of sharp injuries.
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