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Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions to Prevent Associated Infection at a Military Hospital

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Last updated: 07 Jan 2025

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Background: Standard precautions are the primary strategy for minimizing the transmission of healthcare-associated infections. Knowledge and compliance with standard precautions are essential to prevent hospitals associated infections and protect patients as well as medical workers. The study aimed to assess nurse's knowledge and compliance with standard precautions to prevent associated infection at a military hospital. Research design: A descriptive study design was utilized to carry out this study. Setting: This study was conducted at a military hospital. Sample A convenient non probability sampling consists of 80 nurses at a military hospital was allocated to the current study. Tools: Tool I: Self-administered questionnaire consisted of two parts: Part 1: Nurses' demographic characteristics & Part2: Knowledge Assessment Tool II: The Nurses' compliance to standard precautions measures. Results: Shows that 50% of the studied nurses' age was between 18 to 25 years old, while 75% of them were females and 77.5% were graduated from diploma degree of nursing. And, 63.7% of them had less than 5 years of experience. The findings revealed that 60% of the studied nurses had a good level of knowledge regarding standard precautions measures, while 65% of them had an average level of compliance regarding standard precautions measures. Conclusion: less than two thirds of the studied nurses had good knowledge regarding standard precaution measures and about two thirds of them have average score regarding compliance with standard precaution practices Recommendation: Training programs should be provided to new nurses on standard precautions measures and that training programs should be on regular basis for all nursing staff

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10.21608/ejhc.2024.401407

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Standard Precautions, Knowledge, Compliance, and associated infection

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Amira

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El-Kot Ahmed Sror

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B.Sc of Nursing; Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University

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Mostafa

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Mahmoud Mohamed El-Nakib

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Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department in Military Medical Academy

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Salwa

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Abdalla Mohamed

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Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Military Medical Academy

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Nadia

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Mohamed Hassan Madany

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Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

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15

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4

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50760

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2024-12-01

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2024-12-30

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2024-12-01

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1,450

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1,461

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge and Compliance with Standard Precautions to Prevent Associated Infection at a Military Hospital

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07 Jan 2025