A study to assess the knowledge and practice of staff nurses to prevent and control neonatal nosocomial infections in maternal and neonatal units of selected hospital, Ernakulam district
Author(s): Ms.LEYA K PAUL
Authors Affiliations:
Lecturer, Sree Sudheendra College Of Nursing, Ambalamedu.
DOIs:10.2017/IJRCS/202502003 | Paper ID: IJRCS202502003A study was done to assess the knowledge and practices on prevention and control of neonatal infections among staff nurses working in NICU and Maternity ward in a selected hospital at Ernakulam district, Kerala during 02-01-2012 to 30-01-2012. The main objective of the study was to assess the knowledge level and practice on prevention and control of neonatal nosocomial infections among staff nurses and to find out the association between selected socio demographic variables and knowledge and practice of staff nurses on prevention and control of neonatal nosocomial infection. The research design adopted for this study was non-experimental descriptive design. The conceptual frame work adopted was Pender’s Health Promotion model. The staff nurses working in neonatal intensive care unit and maternity ward in a selected hospital were taken as samples .Data was collected using convenient sampling technique. Structured knowledge questionnaire and two different observational checklists were used to assess the knowledge and practice of staff nurses. The data gathered were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics and interpreted in terms of objectives of the study. The statistics used to interpret the data were descriptive (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square and mann-whitney test). The findings revealed that there was no significant association between selected demographic variables with knowledge and practice of staff nurses. The study concluded that majority of staff nurses had good knowledge regarding prevention and control of neonatal nosocomial infections whereas none of them had good practice in the same aspect.
Ms.LEYA K PAUL (2025), A study to assess the knowledge and practice of staff nurses to prevent and control neonatal nosocomial infections in maternal and neonatal units of selected hospital, Ernakulam district, International Journal of Research Culture Society, ISSN(O): 2456-6683, Volume – 9, Issue – 2., Pp.10-18. Available on – https://ijrcs.org/
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