Effect of Nursing Guidelines Regarding Infection Control Measures on Performance of Internship Students in Applied Medical Science College at Hafr Al-Batin

Abstract

Background: Improvement in the performance of health care workers is an important aspect of infection control in the health care settings. Nursing students are more exposed to infections during clinical experience so they need to improve their performance related to infection control measures. Aim: This study was conducted to assess of knowledge, practice and attitude of internship nursing students related to infection control and its measures and explore the effect of nursing guidelines regarding infection control and its measures on their knowledge, performance and attitude of internship nursing students. Setting and Subjects: The study was carried out in King Khalid Hospital at Hafer Al-Batin city in Kingdom Saudi Arabia on all available internship nursing students (33 students) of College of Applied medical Science, Dammam University. Tools: collected data were divided into three parts related to sociodemographic data; assessment of knowledge, practice and attitude toward infection control and its measures. Results: After demonstration of guidelines regarding infection control and its measures, there were significant improvement in the level of knowledge, performance and attitude of internship nursing students. Recommendation: The periodic refresher in-service training courses should be provided to nursing students in order to keep them of updating knowledge and practice regarding infection control measures.