Individual Factors Related to Compliance with Standard Wisdom Implementation in Nurses at Rsud Dr. Rasidin Padang

Abstract

Background: It is difficult to control the behavior of health workers implementing standard precautions when providing services to patients which results in infection rates in hospitals being difficult to make zero percent. This can be detrimental to the hospital and the client. Reducing this problem requires efforts by the hospital to increase the compliance of health workers, especially nurses in implementing standard precautions. Objective: This study is to identify individual factors associated with standard precautions in nurses at RSUD dr. Rasidin Padang. Method: This type of research is descriptive analytic with a cross sectional approach. The sample amounted to 45 nurses in the ICU, CVCU, NICU who were taken by total sampling. Data were collected using a questionnaire, data were analyzed univariate and bivariate. Results: The results showed that almost all nurses were compliant in implementing standard precautions, almost all nurses aged 20-35 were female, had a Ners education and had training. There is a significant relationship between attitude factors, nurse motivation with compliance with the implementation of standard precautions (p <0.05) while there is no significant relationship between factors of education level, age, gender, training with compliance with the implementation of standard precautions in nurses with (p <0.05). Conclusion: It is necessary to supervise the obligation to implement standard precautions by nurses and there is an agenda for training on standard precautions on an ongoing basis.