| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 7 in developed
and 10 in developing countries will acquire at least one health care associated
infection.
As members of the health care team, nurses play a very important role in HCAI
control. Therefore, nurses must have sufficient information and necessary skills in this
field.
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses towards
prevention of health care acquired infections in Nakasero Hospital, Kampala.
Methods: This was a descriptive researcher administered pre-tested questionnaires
cross-sectional survey. Bivariate and multivariate analysis were not performed since
we did not seek to determine any association.
Results: We recruited 70 nurses into the study.40% (28) were males, 35.7% (25) were
registered nurses, 14.3% (10) ward assistants, 35.7%(25) enrolled nurses and 14.3%
(10) BNS. The mean age of participants was 28 ± 1.13, and the mean duration of
employment was 3 ± 1.5 years. Almost all 84.3%(59) nurses in Nakasero Hospital
used disposal mask and gloves once and discard them after use and 84.3% of the
nurses sterilize equipment and dressings after use in their departments.
Conclusion and Recommendation: Nurses in any health care systems should be
aware of effectiveness of Health care associated infection control measures. The poor
practice of nurses in this study indicates a strong need of an on-job periodic trainings
in Nakasero Hospital limited to control acquisition/ spread of Health care associated
infections. Furthermore, we recommend that a similar study should be carried out in
government facility in both rural and urban settings for comparison. | en_US |
