Improving low implementation rate of infection prevention and Patient safety among nurses in Adama Hospital Medical College.
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2019-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Infection prevention is very essential for the safety and wellbeing of patients,
hospital staffs and visitors of the hospital.All health care professionals and Nurses in
particular are often exposed to various infections during the course of carrying out their
nursing activities. Therefore nurses should have sound knowledge and strict adherence to
infection prevent practice in order to prevent hospital acquired infections.
Objective: Improve the implementation rate of infection prevention and patient safety from
37%to 80% in Adama Hospital medical college by end of June 2019.
Methods:pre-postintervention study design was used in a consultative approach to increase
the implementation rate of infection prevention and patient safety in Adama hospital by
creating awareness among nurses in providing practical on-service training.
The sample size for the study was determined by using single population proportion
formula considering 83% proportion of good practice and 16.7% of proportion of HCW
who got any training on infection prevention and patient safety.The sample size selection
was done by considering the rule of thumb andtheselection of nurses considers proportional
allocation to each department based on the size of nurses and then simple random sampling
method was used.Data was calculated manually by using Microsoft Excel and manual
calculators to calculate percentages. Data were collected from 83 sampled nurses’ though
self-administered checklists and the collected data were counted, tallied and checked for
quality and before data analysis.
Result:The finding of this studyshows that there waslow implementation rate for infection
prevention 37% during pre-implementation period and later increased to 80% after the
intervention strategy has implemented.
Conclusions:Nosocomial infections have been recognized as a problem affecting the quality
of health care and a principal source of adverse healthcare outcomes. Increased hospital stay
days due to prolonged wound healing in the hospital has increased costs of healthcare,
economic hardship to patients and their familiesas evidenced this capstone project during the
study period
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Infection, health care, nurses, practice, knowledge, implementation.