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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.7.466

Survey on Infection Control Status and Perceived Importance of ICP (infection control practitioner) in Long Term Care Hospital  

Kim, You-Jeong (Department of Nursing, Sunlin college)
Park, Jeong-Sook (College of Nursing, Keimyung University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.7, 2017 , pp. 466-475 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of infection control in long term care hospitals. Data were gathered from 156 long term care hospitals that received certification evaluation from May 1, 2016 to July 31, 2016. We used a questionnaire consisting of 85 items regarding the status and perceived importance of infection control. The data were analyzed using the SPSS / WIN 21.0 program. All of the hospitals have infection control regulations, 80.4% of them have an infection control committee and 86.0% of them employ an ICP(infection control practitioner) who holds this position in addition to another. Hand hygiene showed the highest score at 4.47 in the perceived importance of infection control. Employee education and compliance with the validity period of sterilized products showed the highest frequency and perceived importance among the infection control activities. The above results show that almost all of the long term care hospitals have infection control regulations, but that these regulations are not properly implemented, because of the lack of applicable regulations on the policy level. Therefore, it is necessary to develop infection monitoring standards and infection control guidelines for long term care hospitals and provide the infection control practitioners with training in how to apply them.
Keywords
Infection control; Infection control practitioner; Infection control status; Long term care hospital; perceived importance;
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