Topic: - A study to assess the Knowledge, And Practice of Hand Hygiene among Nursing Staff in different department of the Hospitals in Uttar Pradesh. Background of the study: - Health care associated infections persist as amajor problem in health care settings especially Intensive Care Units. Hand hygiene is the most simple and effective method for the prevention of these healthcare associated infections. So, assess the reported hand hygiene practices and observing is very much important to find out gaps, plan remedial measure to reduce HAIs. Hand hygiene practice is still burdened by inadequate compliance, whether in the professional sphere by health professionals or in the non-professional sphere by lay population Aims of the study: A. To assess the hand hygiene practices among nurses B. To assess the reason for non-compliance. Material and method: - This study was conducted in different department of Fatima hospital. It was an observational, study50 different professional categories nurses were taken for observational study, 50 for assess the reported hand hygiene practices. Questionnaire and observation tool were used for data collection. Result: The study revealed that there is a corelation between the knowledge and the practices of hand hygiene among the nurses. The overall observed compliance was 58 % (50 nurses included in observation study, 308 number of opportunities are given only 180opportunities of hand hygiene being performed). The BSc nurses shows higher compliance rate (93.4%). The GNM nurses show 64% and the ANM show low rate (60%). The reported hand hygiene compliance among (Questionnaire given to50 Nurses they were may or may not be included in observation study). Conclusion: There were two studies conducted by the investigator. The observational study and reported study. The observational study shows that the overall hand hygiene compliance was58% and the reported study give more than 93.4% of compliance among different categories of nurses. The investigator found that the overall observed hand hygiene compliance among nurses was 58.4%, from that BSC Nurses have performed better. They reported the reason for noncompliance was that they were too busy (64%).
Hand hygiene, knowledge, Practice, Nursing Staff, Hospital, Mean, Infection, Prevention, Sample, Questionnaire, Observation tool, Data collection, Corelation, Non compliance
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