Abstract
This study conducted at Nam Dinh University of Nursing based on concept that Positive attitude towards occupational exposure can help nursing students self-correct their behavior in the prevention of blood and body fluid exposure. This paper aims to describe final-year nursing students’ attitude of Nam Dinh University of Nursing towards preventing exposures to blood and body fluids. Related to research methods, Final year full-time nursing students were randomly selected to answer questionnaires. Research results show 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. Authors conclude that 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
Blood and body fluid precautions are recommendations to prevent many diseases while giving first aid or other health care that includes contact with body fluids or blood. These precautions treat all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious for diseases that are transmitted in the blood. The organisms spreading these diseases are called blood-borne pathogens.Bahadori and Sadigh (2010) said that Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids is an important hazard for health care workers, which places them at a high risk for blood-borne infections including hepatitis B
Comments: Survey of 182 nursing students, course 12, in which female students account for 89% and 87.4% of students have been vaccinated with Hepatitis B vaccine
The attitude of senior nursing students on the prevention of exposure to blood and body fluids was average with an average score of 3.69 ± 0.22 points, of which 91.2 % of students have a moderate attitude, and 8.8% of students have a positive attitude
Summary
Blood and body fluid precautions are recommendations to prevent many diseases while giving first aid or other health care that includes contact with body fluids or blood. These precautions treat all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious for diseases that are transmitted in the blood.
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