Relationship between Nurse Performance and Implementation of Infection Prevention and Control at Hospital X Bogor, Indonesia

Abstract

The hospital is a place for people to get treatment and health services, and expect the best treatment. However, due to the high rate of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in hospitals, health workers must be able to take Infection Prevention and Control (PPI) measures; but the workload, work environment, motivation, and attitudes drive the performance of nurses in providing nursing care, which can have an impact on the implementation of PPI. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nurse performance and respondent characteristics with the implementation of infection prevention and control in the inpatient room of Hospital X in Bogor Regency, Indonesia. The method in this study is descriptive-analytic with a cross-sectional approach with a total sampling of 45 respondents. The results of the chi-square test obtained a p-value of 0.001 < 0.05, which means that there is a significant relationship between the performance of nurses and the implementation of infection prevention and control. It can be concluded that the better the nurse's performance, the greater the opportunity to be able to carry out infection prevention and control actions properly. Researchers recommend improving the quality of nurses by providing retraining or retraining to nurses to add experience and insight so that it will increase the work ethic that is beneficial for the implementation of infection prevention and control properly organized by hospital management.