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@#Introduction: Knowledge, compliance, and attitudes toward the standard precaution guidelines are crucial to avoid contamination not only on patients but also on healthcare providers. Little is known regarding Malaysian nursing students’ knowledge, compliance, and attitudes toward standard precaution guidelines. The purpose of this study was to look into Malaysian nursing students’ knowledge, compliance, and attitudes towards standard precaution guidelines. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 337 Diploma nursing students who were chosen by simple random sampling. A self-invented questionnaire based on the CDC recommendations was administered to the participants and their responses were recorded. With a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.96, the instrument is reliable. The STROBE cross-sectional design process guideline was used as the study design. Results: Majority of the nursing students have adequate knowledge (n=222, 65.9%), adequate compliance (n=229, 68%) and good attitudes (n=171, 50.7%) with the standard precaution. The findings suggest an association between gender (p=0.005) and year of educational level (p=0.001) with the level of knowledge. There was also an association between the level of knowledge with the level of compliance (p=0.029) and the level of attitude (p=0.002) with standard precautions among the nursing students. Conclusion: Even though nearly two-thirds of the participants appeared to have adequate knowledge and compliance, only half of them have good attitudes with the standard precautions. This study indicates that although the students had adequate knowledge and compliance, measures are needed to foster compatible attitudes towards the standard precautions among the nursing students.
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Objective:To explore the methods and effect of applying specialized training and multimedia education in key infection-related departments of a hospital to intervene standard precautions for clinical practice interns.Methods:Based on the cases of nosocomial infection at home and abroad, the Science and Education Section and Infection Management Section designed and produced videos about standard precautions and occupational protection. The content of these videos covered two fields including knowledge training and skill training, with emphasis on enhancing awareness of profession risks and skills of hospital infection control and occupational protection of 196 medical students through specialized training in key infection-related departments. The training effect of standard precautions education for the two groups of students was evaluated from the theoretical test scores, questionnaire survey on their attitude and compliance to standard precautions, and the incidence of their occupational exposure to needle stab wound. SPSS 18.0 was performed for t test and chi-square test. Results:Apart from the knowledge of the unfavorable factors of implementing standard precautions, there were significant differences between the experimental group and the control group in six aspects: theoretical test scores, hospital infection risk cognition, significance cognition of standard precautions, favorable factors of implementing standard precautions, self-efficacy evaluation and self-evaluation of compliance to standard precautions ( P<0.05). And there was significant difference in the incidence of occupational exposure to needle stab wound between the experiment group and control group (1.02% vs. 7.14%; χ2=4.69, P<0.05). Conclusion:Various teaching interventions of standard precautions during the entire internship period have expanded and deepened the contents of school education, enabling the students to form good occupational risk awareness and coping skills to protect the patients and themselves.
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Purpose@#This study aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge on Standard Precautions, level of compliance to Standard Precautions, and General self-efficacy of nurses in a tertiary hospital. Also, this study aimed to identify the relationship between those variables.@*Design and Methods@#A descriptive correlational research design was utilized in the study. 168 nurses from the tertiary hospital from Nueva Ecija, Philippines were recruited to complete a questionnaire about their knowledge and compliance to Standard Precautions and their General self-efficacy. The data was coded, encoded, and statistically analyzed using PSPP 1.2.0 (GNU Project. New York City, New York, USA).@*Results@#Findings indicated that nurses have good knowledge and high compliance concerning standard precautions; also, findings showed that nurses have a moderate level of general self-efficacy. However, there was no remarkable relationship between the level of knowledge, level of compliance in Standard Precautions, and general self-efficacy.@*Conclusions@#Although the researcher concluded a high level of knowledge among nurses, statistical analysis showed no relationship when correlated with compliance. This concluded that knowledge of Standard Precautions does not necessarily influence compliance and its application. Also, findings inferred that a moderate level of general self-efficacy did not act upon the level of compliance of nurses to Standard Precautions.
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@#Since an epidemic occur of Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) in December, 2019, all the dental healthcare service providers in our country have been greatly impacted. The strategy of managing the dental clinics is quite different from that of the medical healthcare clinics, and the key point of the administration of those dental healthcare providers is to focus on the management of outpatient care because they only supply just a little bit of inpatient care service but quite an large amount of outpatient care service. So we think the next step is to make plausible and effective scenarios to protect our dental healthcare staff and patients against corona virus infection during the treatments procedures after the reopening all of our dental clinics. To overcome this harsh condition, the infection prevention and control strategies adopted by the Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University were designed to be flexible and could be adjusted promptly according to the national and local governmental orders and latest guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All these prevention procedures and protocols were customized to fit our own situation and have been updated for several times based on the latest global pandemic reports. After going through the hardest time in the past four months, it’s considered that our COVID-19 prevention rules have been proved to be efficient and work well. Further more, it has made massive progress for the hospital in improving the capability of dealing with this state of emergency, especially by previewing and triaging patients strictly to cut off the possible coronavirus spreading from the original step, enhancing the standard precautions and those specific protocols made for minimizing the droplets, aerosol and contact transmission of COVID-19 indoors. Besides, a daily supervision system was set up as a routine job and a team of qualified infection prevention specialists were assigned to check and report every incorrect details during the whole procedure of dental practice. Meanwhile, the safety and well-being of the public and our medical workers could be also guaranteed through following those detailed prevention scenarios.
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PURPOSE: In this study an examination was done of nursing students' knowledge, awareness and performance of standard precaution guidelines designed to prevent medical-related infections. METHODS: Participants in this study were 184 junior and senior college nursing students who completed a clinical practice. Data collection was done from December 3 to 21, 2016 and was analyzed using SPSS/WIN 18.0. RESULTS: The mean score for awareness of standard precautions was 4.77±0.35, and the mean score for performance of standard precautions was 4.45±0.41. Performance was lower than awareness. Knowledge of standard precautions had a positive correlation with performance of standard precautions (r=.23, p=.002). There was also a positive correlation between awareness and performance of standard precautions (r=.49, p<.001). Stepwise regression analysis showed that the factors affecting the performance of standard precaution totaled 27.3% of determination coefficient due to the degree of observation and knowledge, awareness of standard precautions. CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that factors influencing performance of standard precautions are the degree of observation of the students themselves and their knowledge and awareness of standard precautions and also provide basic data necessary to develop education programs for nursing students to improve their performance of standard precautions.