Background: The compliance with standard precautions is a primary strategy for the prevention of operating room infections. Aim; the study aimed to assess the relationship between nurses' knowledge and their compliance with standard precautions in operating room. Design; descriptive research design was used. Setting; this study was conducted in the operating room at general surgery department at Benha University Hospitals and Benha Teaching Hospital, Egypt. Sample; All available nurses (60) working at operating room. Tools; two tools were used, tool (1); Self-assessment questionnaire to assess nurses’ knowledge regarding standard precautions and tool (2): Compliance checklist to assess nurses’ practice regarding standard precautions. Results; found that 45% of nurses their age ranged between 21≤30 years, 63.3% of them were females, while 53.3% of them were graduated from Technical Institute of Nursing and not attended training courses in standard precautions against infection during the past year, Meanwhile 68.3% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of total knowledge about standard precautions in the operating room. Also 73.3% of nurses were not adherent with standard precautions in operation room. This study showed that there were highly statistically significant positive correlation between total nurses’ knowledge score and total nurses’ compliance score regarding standard precautions in the operating room. Conclusion; The present study shows that more than two thirds of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of total knowledge about standard precautions in the operating room, and less than two third of them were not adherent with standard precautions in operation room. There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total nurses’ knowledge and total nurses’ compliance about standard precautions Recommendation; there is a need for continuous monitoring and evaluating of nurses’ performance regarding compliance with standard precautions and correction of poor performance is essential.
Ahmed, W., Mohamed, S., & Abu EI-fadl, N. (2020). Relationship between Nurse’s Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions in the Operating Room. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 1(2), 47-61. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159434
MLA
Ward Moustafa Ahmed; Sabah Saied Mohamed; Nehal Mahmoud Abu EI-fadl. "Relationship between Nurse’s Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions in the Operating Room", Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 1, 2, 2020, 47-61. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159434
HARVARD
Ahmed, W., Mohamed, S., Abu EI-fadl, N. (2020). 'Relationship between Nurse’s Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions in the Operating Room', Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 1(2), pp. 47-61. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159434
VANCOUVER
Ahmed, W., Mohamed, S., Abu EI-fadl, N. Relationship between Nurse’s Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions in the Operating Room. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2020; 1(2): 47-61. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159434
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