Abstract

Introduction: Educating nursing students as future and front-line nurses of patient care is very important to ensure that they have the appropriate knowledge and skills in infection prevention and control. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of the effect of teaching standard precautions on the knowledge and practice of nursing students. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 70 final year nursing students and was randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. Criteria for data collection tools included demographic questionnaire and Kirk Patrick evaluation model. For the intervention group, a training program was implemented based on the crack patrick model and for the control group, an educational booklet was given to students. After the training program, its effectiveness was evaluated in four levels (reaction, learning, behavior, results) of Kirk Patrick model. To assess the amount of learning using the researcher-made test before and after the test one week after training, the amount of learning was measured. To evaluate the performance, an observational checklist was used which consists of 8 sections and a total of 66. Whether or not each of the 66 functions was performed by the research units, by the researcher on different days imperceptibly before and one month after the intervention and The checklist was completed. Finally, after collecting statistical data, the results were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The findings of this study show that the average learning score of nursing students after the educational program based on the Kirk Patrick model increased significantly and also the average performance score of nursing students after the educational program increased significantly. Discussion & Conclusion: The results indicate the effectiveness of the course held for nursing students and it seems that Kirk Patrick model can be a suitable way to evaluate the effectiveness of health education

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