1BSc (N), Dept. of Pediatric Nursing, JSS College of Nursing, Mysuru
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatric Nursing, JSS College of Nursing, Mysuru
3Principal cum HOD (MSN), JSS College of Nursing, Mysuru
Online published on 13 June, 2016.
Nurses are the largest occupational group in any health care agency. By virtue of their job responsibility they are frequently exposed to blood and body fluids. The nurse's risk of exposure to health hazards and the nurse as a cause of iatrogenic infection to the patients are equally challenging issues to the nurses all over the world. By using simple techniques of universal precautions nurse can avoid dangerous occupational hazards and the knowledge of prevention of blood borne diseases can make nurses confident to deal with patients suffering from HIV and HBV. Nurses are at risk of acquiring and transmitting hospital acquired infections in the course of delivering the nursing care. Measures to prevent the transmission of these infectious microorganisms are therefore a significant component of nursing care. This prevention is achieved through the practice of infection prevention, including the implementation of infection prevention standard precautions.
Descriptive survey design.
Non-Probability convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of 60 samples based on the sampling criteria.
Proforma for selected personal variables, structured knowledge questionnaire and self administered rating scale
Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Out of 60 samples, 59(98%) had good level of compliance with standard precautions and 1(2%) had average level of compliance with standard precautions. The result also shown that that there is significant association between the level of compliance with standard precaution score of staff nurses and age and no significant association found between gender, qualification, area, exposure to needle stick injury, splash of blood and body fluid, HB vaccine, protocol, total number of CNE attended and level of compliance with standard precaution of staff nurses.
Thus, it was concluded that majority 59(98%) had good level of compliance with standard precautions and 1(2%) had average level of compliance with standard precaution. The nurse and nursing students have to update themselves and keep abreast with the current trends so that practice can improve by its application.
Staff nurses, Standard Precaution, Level of compliance
