Prevention of nosocomial infections caused by the most common bacterial pathogens : A poster guide for nursing students
Vo, Hang Ngoc Phuong; Motin, Aziza (2018)
Vo, Hang Ngoc Phuong
Motin, Aziza
2018
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore what kind of confidence nursing degree students obtain about prevention of hospital-acquired infections caused by bacterial pathogens. The objective of this study was to raise nursing degree students’ awareness on self-protection and self-prevention of hospital-acquired infections during practical training and at work after graduation. The research question in this study was: what measures do nursing students need to take into account in regards to hospital-acquired infection prevention?
The knowledge base was included three precise principal data resources, such as THL, WHO, PMID, to build the theoretical framework. The method applied for this study was quantitative research method, following by the conduction of a survey. The survey was given to the certain group of students from Laurea.
The main results of this study were to evaluate Laurea UAS’s nursing degree students’ own knowledge and comprehensive understanding about the preventive measurement of hospital-acquired infections. Based on the results, the further outcome of this study was to provide a newest guide of self-prevention for nursing degree students. To be more specific, the guide was created as an informative and picturable poster, which contains all recommendations required for prevention of getting infection.
The analysis of the results demonstrated that approximately 80% of Laurea UAS’s nursing degree students had been provided adequate knowledge about bacterial hospital-acquired infections during practice at healthcare facilities. More importantly, 50 out of 51 respondents have had the adequate level of confidence on performing hand hygiene appropriately equal or more than 50%. Besides that, there are some barriers that hinder students from performing hand hygiene and asepsis adequately. About half of nursing degree respondents had chosen ‘they forget doing it’ as their answers.
In conclusion, the figures from this study’s findings generally showed that nursing degree students had deeply educated about the essentiality of infection prevention at Laurea UAS and at practice placement. Recommendations of this study are that it is strongly believed hand hygiene and asepsis play a vital role in healthcare professionals’ career. For this reason, nursing degree students are necessarily provided information about hygiene-performing procedures promptly when they are freshmen. Additionally, authors’ recommendation for further researches are that this study’s topic-related and the poster about hand hygiene guideline will be made in Finnish in the future. Therefore, the results will be not only applied for nursing degree program in English but also in Finnish.
Keywords: nosocomial infections, hospital-acquired infections, bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, hand hygiene, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, nursing students.
The knowledge base was included three precise principal data resources, such as THL, WHO, PMID, to build the theoretical framework. The method applied for this study was quantitative research method, following by the conduction of a survey. The survey was given to the certain group of students from Laurea.
The main results of this study were to evaluate Laurea UAS’s nursing degree students’ own knowledge and comprehensive understanding about the preventive measurement of hospital-acquired infections. Based on the results, the further outcome of this study was to provide a newest guide of self-prevention for nursing degree students. To be more specific, the guide was created as an informative and picturable poster, which contains all recommendations required for prevention of getting infection.
The analysis of the results demonstrated that approximately 80% of Laurea UAS’s nursing degree students had been provided adequate knowledge about bacterial hospital-acquired infections during practice at healthcare facilities. More importantly, 50 out of 51 respondents have had the adequate level of confidence on performing hand hygiene appropriately equal or more than 50%. Besides that, there are some barriers that hinder students from performing hand hygiene and asepsis adequately. About half of nursing degree respondents had chosen ‘they forget doing it’ as their answers.
In conclusion, the figures from this study’s findings generally showed that nursing degree students had deeply educated about the essentiality of infection prevention at Laurea UAS and at practice placement. Recommendations of this study are that it is strongly believed hand hygiene and asepsis play a vital role in healthcare professionals’ career. For this reason, nursing degree students are necessarily provided information about hygiene-performing procedures promptly when they are freshmen. Additionally, authors’ recommendation for further researches are that this study’s topic-related and the poster about hand hygiene guideline will be made in Finnish in the future. Therefore, the results will be not only applied for nursing degree program in English but also in Finnish.
Keywords: nosocomial infections, hospital-acquired infections, bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, hand hygiene, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, nursing students.