Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

A Study Of Knowledge and Practice about universal precaution among Nurses and Lab technician and class four worker (Sweeper and word boy) of Teaching Hospital Bilaspur Chhattisgarh

Thakur . Singh H, Dhruw V. , Singh L. , Armomeena

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<p><p> Research question :– To assess the factors influencing “ Universal precaution “ practices in government setting . Objective :–To study the knowledge and practice of universal precaution among staffs of teaching hospital . Study design – cross section hospital based study. Study subject :– 437 Nurses ,lab technician ,and class 4th workers (sweeper,wordboy,aya) of teaching hospital Bilaspur. Methodology :– 437 study subject was interviewed on pretested and predesigned proforma .Proforma consist of two part in first part each participants observed for three consecutive days regarding practice of universal precaution and proforma was filled by observer,in second part of proforma participants are interviewed for knowledge regarding”Universal precaution “. Statistical Analysis :– The statistical analysis was perform by the SPSS package and chi squir test. Result :–36.61 % of study subject were not even aware about the “ universal precaution” knowledge and practice of “ universal precaution” among nursing staff ( 97.5 % and 89.16 %) and technicians are (80.7 %and 67.3 %) are maximum knowledge and practice of universal precaution out of total study subject ( 18 %) immunized against hepatitis B and ( 98 %) immunised for tetanus toxide. Only ( 67.5 % ) of participants know about PEP (post exposure prophylaxis ) Conclusion :– In this study class 4th healthcare staffs are high risk group for “Hospital acquired Infection”. Large lacunae in basic knowledge and practice of “universal precaution” by them,need to introduce inbuilt , on–going continuous training program for all level of health care workers.</p></p>

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Thakur .Singh H, Dhruw V., Singh L., ArmoMeena A Study of Knowledge and Practice about universal precaution among Nurses and Lab technician and class four worker (Sweeper and word boy) of Teaching Hospital Bilaspur Chhattisgarh Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 8 August 2015

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