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Factors Affecting Nurses' Performance of Standard Precautions for Infection in Public Medical Institutions: Focusing on Knowledge and Safety Environment (공공의료기관 간호사의 감염 표준주의지침 수행도 영향요인 : 지식, 안전환경 중심으로)

Lee, Ji-in;Kim, Jong Kyung
- The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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- v.21 no.7
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- pp.238-247
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- 2021
This study is a descriptive research to investigate the, safety environment, and performance of nurses working in public medical institutions on standard precautions for infection, and to identify factors affecting the performance of standard precautions for infection. As for the research method, data were collected through a questionnaire on 192 nurses from two public medical institutions in S city and N city, and the results were analyzed using the SPSS WIN 22.0 statistical program. From the research results, there was a significant difference in the knowledge of standard precautions according to work experience, and there was a significant difference in the safety environment of standard precautions according to the position. The average level of knowledge of standard precautions was 21.98/25 points, the average safety environment was 5.68/7 points, and the average performance was 40.28/60 points. There was a significant positive correlation between the safety environment of standard precautions and the performance of standard precautions (r=.21, p<0.01). The affecting factor on the performance of standard precautions was found to be the safety environment of standard precautions(𝛽=.22, p=.003). Therefore, to improve the performance of standard precautions for nurses' infection control in public medical institutions, Different and persistent infection management educational programs that consider the Historical situation and monitoring are required other than providing financial support and supportive safety environment.
https://doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2021.21.07.238 인용 PDF KSCI HTML