Abstract
Positive attitude towards occupational exposure can help nursing students self-correct their behavior in the prevention of blood and body fluid exposure. Objective: Describe final-year nursing students’ attitude of Nam Dinh University of Nursing towards preventing exposures to blood and body fluids. Subject and method: Final year full-time nursing students were randomly selected to answer questionnaires. Results: The mean score of the attitude towards the prevention of exposure to blood and body fluids was 3.69 ± 0.22 points. In which, mean scores of students’ attitude towards severity; the importance of preventive measures; the role of solving, reporting, treating and monitoring post-exposure; self-confidence; barriers to the practice of preventive measures are in turn 4,00 ± 0,41 points; 4,23 ± 0,43 points; 3,84 ± 0,48 points;2,8 ± 0,47 points; 3,61 ± 0,43 points. Conclusion: attitude of final-year nursing students of Nam Dinh University of Nursing towards preventing exposures to blood and body fluids is moderate with mean score is 3,69 ± 0,22 points/5 points. Final-year nursing students have positive attitude towards severity and the importance of preventive measures but have negative attitude towards self-confidence to do prevention measures to blood and body fluid exposures.
Highlights
Exposure to blood and body fluids is one of the occupational accidents that occur in a clinical setting
Body fluids can occur to nursing students, mainly through skin lesions from needles or sharp objects contaminated with blood, secretions of infected persons, or blood, body fluids of infected persons infection in contact with the damaged skin or shot into the mucosa (Alhowaish et al, 2017)
Senior nursing students and future nurses as well, will improve the quality and safety of patient care, take the lead in general hospital infection prevention and control and preventive care occupational exposure room in particular. This topic is done to assess the attitudes of nursing students in the last year in the prevention of exposure to Corresponding author: Pham Thi Bich Ngoc Nam Dinh University of Nursing, Vietnam
Summary
Exposure to blood and body fluids is one of the occupational accidents that occur in a clinical setting This accident happens to medical staff, those who care for and treat patients, but can happen to students while taking practical lessons in practice units. Senior nursing students and future nurses as well, will improve the quality and safety of patient care, take the lead in general hospital infection prevention and control and preventive care occupational exposure room in particular. This topic is done to assess the attitudes of nursing students in the last year in the prevention of exposure to Corresponding author: Pham Thi Bich Ngoc Nam Dinh University of Nursing, Vietnam
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