Kontakt 2011, 13(1):11-17 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.003

Principles of the barrier nursing technique in the prevention of nosocomial infections from the viewpoints of students of nursingNursing

Mária Boledovičová*, Erika Krištofová, Iveta Nádaská
Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, Fakulta sociálnych vied a zdravotníctva, katedra ošetrovate'lstva, Nitra

Nosocomial infections are an accompanying phenomenon of the institutional health care and their study and particularly prevention belong to principal duties of all the healthcare professionals. Students of nursing master knowledge and skill in agreement with requirements for barrier nursing. For the period of the clinical practice, the students have a chance to observe healthcare professionals taking care of patients and they frequently improperly simulate their routine behaviour associated with non-adhering to these principles. The target of the research was on the one hand to find how the students of nursing see the healthcare professionals in adhering to principles of the barrier nursing techniques and, on the other hand, how the students themselves adhere to these principles. A structured questionnaire was completed by 100 students of the second and third years of the bachelor study programme "Nursing" at the Faculty of Social and Health Studies of the UKF Nitra. Answers of students indicated that principles of the personal hygiene and adjustment of nails and decorations have not always been adhered to by the health professionals, the largest problems being with bearing rings, which have always been put off by 8% of them only, from time to time by 57% and never by 39%. The use of the designed dress and protective dress for established working procedures are disappointing, since the protective dress and other tools were used by 68% of students and by 18% of healthcare professionals only. The principles of the hand hygiene have been adhered to by health professionals as follows: always 40%, from time to time 51% and never 9%, and by 90% of students. Disposable material for hand wiping was used by 55% of healthcare professionals and 65% of students, from time to time by 39% vs. 31%, respectively. The duty of all the healthcare professionals and nursing students is to adhere to principles of the barrier nursing technique, change their behaviour and improve the health care through the mediation of the "failures" admitted. The prevention of nosocomial infections can only be effective, if optimum conditions are provided on the part of the managements of departments and hospitals.

Keywords: nosocomial infections; barrier nursing technique; prevention; nursing students; healthcare professionals

Received: September 20, 2010; Accepted: February 18, 2011; Published: March 28, 2011  Show citation

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Boledovičová M, Krištofová E, Nádaská I. Principles of the barrier nursing technique in the prevention of nosocomial infections from the viewpoints of students of nursing. Kontakt. 2011;13(1):11-17. doi: 10.32725/kont.2011.003.
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