People may be affected by many different types of blood conditions and blood cancers. Approximately every 4 minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a type of blood. Furthermore, as stated by the European Hematology Association (EHA), an estimated 80 million people are currently affected with blood disorders in the European Union (EU). This study aims to assessing the nursing students’ knowledge about the risk factors of infection among hematologic disorders patients, in which an approach of assessment was applied to achieve that. A descriptive (cross-sectional) study was conducted during 3rd November, 2017 to 3rd May, 2018. A purposive (non-probability) sample of 100 students from the forth academic stage was involved. Data were collected through the use of the questionnaire format by using the self-administrative approach with those students from both morning and evening studies. Data were analyzed through the application of descriptive and inferential statistical approaches by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0. More than half of students were males; the highest percentage of the study sample was aged twenty one years old, the majority of the students who participated in the study were from the morning and they were not working. More than half of them were living in dorm room. Severity of mean score for students’ level of knowledge was moderate as general. The males, morning study, the students not working besides their studying, and living in a dorm room were the major dominates of the sample with a moderate knowledge level related to identifying risk factors of infection for patients with hematologic disorders.
Risk factors, Infection, Hematological Disorder
