Abstract
Early implementation of appropriate treatments reduces mortality of sepsis, but before starting antibiotherapy, drawing blood culture is essential to identify the source of sepsis and to adapt treatment. Suboptimal practices result in blood culture contamination from patient's skin at the venepuncture site. As blood culture is the standard method to diagnose a bacteraemia, appropriate training of nursing students can promote good clinical practice.
Highlights
Implementation of appropriate treatments reduces mortality of sepsis, but before starting antibiotherapy, drawing blood culture is essential to identify the source of sepsis and to adapt treatment
This study aims to evaluate the teaching and the training of French nursing students on blood culture execution and related hygiene practices
The practice of washing hands and cleaning the venepuncture site prior to blood culture execution were known among 96% and 94% of nursing students
Summary
Implementation of appropriate treatments reduces mortality of sepsis, but before starting antibiotherapy, drawing blood culture is essential to identify the source of sepsis and to adapt treatment. As blood culture is the standard method to diagnose a bacteraemia, appropriate training of nursing students can promote good clinical practice. The “sepsis-3” conference underlined that the quality of blood culture is at the utmost importance to first allow the identification of the origin of sepsis and second to adapt antibiotic treatment based on lab results [14]. To reach this goal, recommendations for blood culture drawing practices have been performed but vary between countries [15,16,17,18]
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