Abstract
Infection prevention is a crucial component to provide quality care in any health care setting. Infections are leading cause of death and preventable illness. This study was conducted to find out the knowledge and practice among nurses regarding infectionprevention. A descriptive study design was adopted for the study. Total 170 nurses were included by usingcensus technique to assess knowledge on infection prevention.Probability systematic sampling technique was used by selecting every odd number from staffs' list to observe the practice of 85 nurses..Semi-structured self-administered questionnaire and observation checklist was used for data collection. The study showed that 57.1% of respondents had adequate knowledge and only 48.2% had good practice on infection preventionthrough hand hygiene, use of adequate personal protective equipment, decontamination, cleaning of instruments, sterilization, and use of antiseptics, disposal of sharps and waste disposal. Similarly 88.8% of the respondents had not received any training related to infection prevention. This study reveals that respondents had better knowledge than practice on infection prevention. The study suggestthat need for organizing regular training, monitoring, development and implementation of guideline to improve knowledge and practice of nurses for prevention of infection in the hospital.
Highlights
Infection prevention is a crucial component to provide quality care in any health care setting
The mean age of work experience was 13.26 years wheremajority of the respondents had 6 month to 5 years of experience, and only 19.4% of the respondents had work experience of more than 25 years.This finding is somewhat similar to a study done in Palestinian Hospitals on knowledge and practice oninfection control measures 2015,showed that majority of the respondents had work experience of 5 years and very few 1.5% of the respondents had work experience of more than 25 years.[5]
Further our study showed that nearly half (48.2%) of the respondents had good practice on Infection Prevention and remaining half (51.8%) of the respondents had poor practice.The findings of this study contradicts with the study done in Palestinian Hospitals which showed approximately half (53.9%) of the studied sample had fair knowledge level (>80%)
Summary
Infection prevention is a crucial component to provide quality care in any health care setting. It has been estimated that the risk of healthcareassociated infections is 2 to 20 times higher in developing countries compared to developed countries and 5% and 10% of patients admitted to hospital in developed countries acquire these infection.[2] prevention among nurses of Bir Hospital tertiary level government hospital. Population of the study was nurses who were working in Bir Hospital. The data was collected from all wards of Bir hospital. Infections are leading cause of death and preventable illness. This study was conducted to find out the knowledge and practice among nurses regarding infectionprevention
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