Assess Knowledge, and Compliance with Standard Precautions for Infection Control among Nursing Students at University of Nizwa

Background: Standard precautions of infection control are the most important practices that help to protect nursing students and health care providers from acquiring and transmission of communicable diseases. Communicable and infectious diseases are still existed in hospitals in Oman especially in critical areas and medical wards. Since communicable diseases are existed in hospitals around the world as well as in Oman, it becomes a challenge for infection prevention and control to control spread of infectious diseases especially in clinical settings. One of the factors that lead to transmission of communicable diseases is improper use of SPs. Methodology: This is a quantitative descriptive cross sectional study of knowledge, and compliance with SPs of infection control among Nursing students at Nizwa university. In this study 81 nursing students completed the self-administered questionnaire nursing students to obtain data about nursing student’s knowledge and compliance to standard precautions. Result: This study revealed that nursing students of University of Nizwa has a satisfactory level of knowledge (80.51%) on standard precautions, and have suboptimal compliance to SPs practices (51.79%) (n= 3.1). Conclusion: It is important to investigate the reasons of the suboptimal compliance of nursing students to standard precautions, the topic of nursing students’ compliance to SPs is an important topic for further and wider researches to be done.

practice, standard precautions, infection control

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