International Journal of Nursing Education and Research

Priyanka Joshi ¹, Diksha Bisht ², Gaurav Negi ², Hemlata Bhatt ², Imrana966 ², Jyoti Rani ², Masuk Ali ², Pooja Haldar ², Shikha Chawla ², Shilpi Negi ³, Avantika Bora ²

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Third Year B. Sc Nursing Students, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN
3 Nursing Tutor, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN

Abstract

This infection may occur after 48 hours of admission in the hospital or after discharge from the hospital. The person may be a patient, members of the hospital staff or visitors. Infection is a painful fact of life and the chief cause of death. If infection occurs during hospital stay, it can cause prolonged stay and increase the rate of morbidity and mortality.1 Nurses are the one who spend more time with patient by being involved in direct care. So she should know how to deliver the care to patient, without risk of occurrence the Hospital Acquired Infection. Infection control is the quality standard of patient care, It is essential for patient safety and well being. Student nurses are more often at risk for transmission of infectious agents while performing some invasive or non invasive procedures in the hospitals. So they should be aware, how to prevent transmission of Hospital Acquired Infections.The main objective of this study is to create awareness and enhance knowledge about Hospital Acquired infection among the B.sc Nursing first year students. Methodology: To achieve the objectives of the study quantitative research approach was used in this study, pre – experimental, one group pre-test post test descriptive research design was used. By using non–probability consecutive sampling technique. This study was done on 30 B.sc Nursing first year students; data was collected by structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding Hospital Acquired Infections. Result: In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including 96.66 % of B.sc nursing 1st year students are belong to (Hindu religion), 93.3% of B.sc nursing 1st year students are (female gender), 90 % of B.sc nursing 1st year students were between (17-20 years of age), 90% of B.sc nursing 1st year students were having (previous knowledge regarding Hospital Acquired Infection), 83.3% of mothers were (housewife), 60% of students were having knowledge through books/ journals, 60% of B.s555c nursing 1st year students belong to rural society, 40% of B.sc nursing 1st year student belong to urban society, 30% of study participant’s fathers were government employed, 30% of fathers were private employed and 30% of fathers were other employed. The finding of study revealed that the mean post test knowledge score (12.83) is significantly greater than the mean pre test knowledge score (12.56) of experimental group B.sc nursing 1st year students (t (29) = 2.28, P <0.05) Hence it is evident that the structured teaching programme is effective module for improving the knowledge of B.sc nursing 1st year students regarding Hospital Acquired Infection.

Keywords

Socio-demographic data.

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Ayush Chauhan ¹, Geetanjali Koranga ¹, Jyoti Negi ¹, Neetu Yadav ¹, Reena Parveen ¹, Riyasat Pasha ¹, Richita Bhandari ¹, Shiwani Chauhan ¹, Swarnima Annie Sukh ¹, Avantika Bora ², Priyanka Joshi ³, Shilpi Negi ²

Affiliations
1 Third Year B.Sc Nursing Students, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Nursing Tutor, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN
3 Assistant Professor, Droan College of Nursing, Vill and Post, Khanpur Purab Dineshpur Road, Rudrapur - 263153, Uttarakhand, IN

Abstract

Introduction: Hospitals are the centre of cure and also the important centre of infectious waste generation and the infectious health care waste is hazardous with the potential risk to spread infection and release high level of unintentionally produced organic pollution. The Goal of the bio medical waste management to manage all the waste in proper way, for that health care personnel and nursing students must to have good knowledge and practice regarding collection, handling, as well as safe disposal of waste. In India, until early 1990s healthcare waste management was a neglected issue after that in 1998 implementation of rule of biomedical waste management and handling. In India, The waste generation rate ranges between 0.5 and 2.0kg/bed/day. In which only about 10-25% of biomedical waste is hazardous and remaining 75-95% is non hazardous and the hazardous part of waste includes chemical, Glassware and microbiological items. This is highly toxic, infectious and can cause a serious threatening condition if not managed in a scientific manner. A major issue related to current bio-medical waste management in many hospitals is that the implementation of Bio waste regulation is unsatisfactory as some hospitals are disposing of waste in a improper and in a inadequate manner. Thus will cause environmental pollution unpleasant smell, growth and multiplication of vectors like insects, rodents, and warms which may lead to the transmission of diseases like cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, and AIDS through injuries from infected syringes and needles Methodology: quantitative research approach was used in study pre experimental; one group pre-test post-test design was selected. The data were collected from 30 student of nursing, who were selected using non probability purposive sampling technique from selected nursing college, Rudrapur, U.S. Nagar. the tool used for the study was structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding Biomedical waste management. Result: The finding of study revealed that the mean post-test knowledge score (15.5) was significantly greater than the pre-test knowledge score (11.1) of experimental group of students. [t=6.98, p<0.00001]. The result showed that there was significant association between knowledge of student regarding bio-medical waste management and socio demographic variables as the chi square value.

Keywords

Knowledge, Practice, Awareness Programme, Ancillary Staff, Bio Medical Waste Management.

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