Factors Affecting Nurses’ Compliance to Standard Precautions in Resource Scarce Settings

Zeb, Aurang; Muhammad, Dildar; Khan, Awal

doi:10.34297/ajbsr.2019.04.000840

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“…This was consistent with a study conducted by Clark, Jit, Warren-Gash, Guthrie, Wang, Mercer, Sanderson, McKee, Troeger, Ong 24 , they pointed out that most of nurses worried to be a vehicles to transmit the virus among their family members who already had a co-morbidity conditions, immunocompromised, or fragile to bear this virus. Also, the results of nursing staff shortage and work-pressure load are in agreement with other studies that reported lack of resources, workload, and lack of adherence with infection control policies as the main contributing factors of noncompliance of nurses with the SPs practices 2,22,25 .…”

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“…Unfortunately, poor knowledge and compliance with SPs were revealed among many studies that could explain the high number of medical staff who were infected by COVID-19 among hospitalized patients 2,20 . In Jordan, little evidences available about the level of adherence of nurses about SPs practices and the main challenges that experience by them during their care of SARS-CoV-2 patients.…”

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Compliance and challenges of Transmission Based Precaution Practices among Nurses in Jordanian Hospitals during the Novel SARS-CoV-2: A descriptive Study

Al-Smadi,

Banihani,

Halabi

et al. 2024

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Background: Standard precautions (SPs) practices are of crucial management skills among Health Care Workers (HCWs) including nurses against the highly infectious novel virus SARS-CoV-2. Aim of the study: The study aimed to assess level of nurse’s compliance with SPs, and identify the main challenges that experienced by nurses during their work with infected SARS-CoV-2 patient’s. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used. The study was conducted in different sectors that represent the health care sector in Jordan. 386 nurses recruited from the different sectors. Results: Data were collected from 386 participants. 66.8% of the participants were female. Most of them revealed that they were dealt previously SARS-CoV-2 patients (73.6%). Generally, nurses demonstrated good level of compliance with SPs practices (71%). The staff reported that they mostly adhere with performing hand hygiene after all procedures (65.8%). On the other hand, they were least adherence with maintaining a physical distance of patient and staff of at least 6ft apart (28.5%). conclusion: It was concluded that nurses have a good level of SPs practices. Many challenges were experienced by nurses while caring of SARS-CoV-2 patients.

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Compliance and challenges of Transmission Based Precaution Practices among Nurses in Jordanian Hospitals during the Novel SARS-CoV-2: A descriptive Study

Al-Smadi,

Banihani,

Halabi

et al. 2024

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“…Similarly, the study from Eskander et al [26] rationalized noncompliance with SPs to limited staff numbers, increased workloads, and difficulty in maintaining hand hygiene. Zeb et al [19] documented the contributing factors towards non-compliance of nurses to SPs were limited facilities, high workloads due to staff shortages, and inefficient policies and regulations for infection prevention.…”

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“…SPs require compliance by both doctors and nurses since they are partners in improving the quality of patient care. If either group does not comply with SPs, the standard of patient care in all areas of hospital settings can suffer [18,19].…”

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Compliance among Registered Nurses and Doctors in Critical Care Units: Challenges Affecting Their Adherence to Standard Precautions

Elseesy,

Al-Zahrani,

Kandil

et al. 2023

Healthcare

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(1) Background: Awareness and compliance with standard precautions (SPs) are essential health issues for both healthcare staff and patients. Hence, more research is urgently needed in the health sector worldwide, particularly in Arab countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate compliance with SPs among nurses and doctors, as well as challenges affecting their adherence to these SPs. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. The researchers administered the compliance with the Standard Precautions Scale (CAPS) to staff nurses and doctors from critical care units at a university-affiliated hospital in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A total of 112 nurses and 59 doctors were enrolled in the study to determine their compliance with SPs as well as the challenges affecting their adherence to these SPs. (3) Results: The overall mean percentage scores of nurses’ and doctors’ compliance with SPs were 36.43 ± 15.85% and 33.27 ± 15.76%, respectively. In addition, the current study identified associated challenges affecting these healthcare workers’ adherence to these SPs, including the effect of sociodemographic factors, such as age and experience. (4) Conclusions: The study found that both nurses and doctors had poor compliance with all SPs except for disposal of sharps, which scored with suboptimal compliance. Nurses’ compliance with recommended precautions varied significantly according to age, clinical experience, and attendance at training courses. Healthcare organizations should consider a holistic approach to promote adherence to SPs to enhance outcomes associated with optimized care delivery and stakeholder safety.

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“…Standard precautions pertain to the minimum standards of infection prevention practices that apply to patient care, regardless of confirmed or suspected infection status among patients in any setting where medical care is given (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). According to Zeb et al (2019), these practice guidelines not only help to minimize the spread of infection among patients but also help to prevent healthcare workers from contracting infections when caring for patients. The five main domains in standard precautions include hand hygiene, use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), safe injection practices, safe handling and cleaning of b-37 contaminated equipment, and respiratory hygiene or cough etiquette (Labrague et al, 2012).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Compliance to Standard Precautions Among UNIMAS Nursing Students

Kaushal

Clement

2022

TUR

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Standard precautions pertain to the minimum standards of infection prevention practices that apply to patient care, regardless of confirmed or suspected infection status among patients in any setting where medical care is given. These practice guidelines not only help to minimize the spread of infection among patients but also help to avoid healthcare workers from contracting infections when caring for patients. Nursing students are equally at risk to exposure to infections during their clinical attachments in the healthcare setting. Hence, this study aims to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and compliance toward standard precautions among undergraduate nursing students in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). It also aims to identify the associations between knowledge, attitude, and compliance toward standard precautions among UNIMAS nursing students. Data was collected from a total of 167 participants using a self-administered questionnaire which was disseminated online via Google Forms. The data collection tool consisted of a 46-item structured questionnaire in 4-parts investigating participant’s sociodemographic profile, knowledge, attitude and compliance towards standard precautions. Study participants consisted of students from the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (with honours) Programme in UNIMAS. Data collected were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and was further analyzed using IBM SPSS version 26. Majority of participants in the study demonstrated very good (46.7%, n=78) and good knowledge (50.9%, n=85) levels while only a minority demonstrated fair knowledge (2.4%, n=4) with none exhibiting low knowledge levels toward standard precautions. Most nursing students (97.6%, n=163) investigated in this study showed positive attitudes toward standard precautions practices. Most study participants self-reported their compliance toward standard precaution practices as high (89.8%, n=150) with a minority reporting average (7.8%, n=13), low (0.6%, n=1) and very low (1.8%, n=3) compliance respectively. Further analyses revealed significant correlations between knowledge and attitude (r= .165, p=.033, p< .05); and attitude and compliance (r= -.505, p=.000, p< .05) with no significant correlations between knowledge and compliance (r= -.036, p=.645, p> .05). Undergraduate nursing students of UNIMAS in this study demonstrated desirably good knowledge levels and positive attitudes with a high level of compliance toward standard precautions practices. Despite the overall desirable findings, there is still room for targeted improvements in the undergraduate programme delivery specifically aimed at misconceptions regarding the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) to maintain and further enhance student’s knowledge, attitudes and compliance toward standard precautions.

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Factors Affecting Nurses’ Compliance to Standard Precautions in Resource Scarce Settings

Abstract: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License AJBSR.MS.ID.000840.

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Compliance and challenges of Transmission Based Precaution Practices among Nurses in Jordanian Hospitals during the Novel SARS-CoV-2: A descriptive Study

Compliance and challenges of Transmission Based Precaution Practices among Nurses in Jordanian Hospitals during the Novel SARS-CoV-2: A descriptive Study

Compliance among Registered Nurses and Doctors in Critical Care Units: Challenges Affecting Their Adherence to Standard Precautions

Knowledge, Attitude, and Compliance to Standard Precautions Among UNIMAS Nursing Students

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