Nurses Clinical Knowledge About Personal Protective Equipment Donning And Doffing Methods At Al-Hayat Wards In Holy Kerbala’a City

Abstract

Background: Due to the dependence of personal protective equipment's efficacy on user behavior, it is thought that personal protective equipment should be placed at the bottom of the infection control hierarchy. Personal protective equipment should be used in accordance with standards and transmission to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated diseases, according to the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). -related illness prevention measures.

Methods:  A descriptive quantitative method was used to evaluate the knowledge of 40 nurses working in the Al-Hayat Wards in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq, regarding the donning and donning of personal protective equipment. The study started on January 15, 2022, and it concluded on May 25, 2022. The tool was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with the sample's socio-demographic characteristics, including age, gender, education level, years of nursing experience, and participation in particular training courses connected to PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. Part two deal with the nurses clinical knowledge about donning and doffing methods of personal protective equipment which involved 18 questions. The validity of the measurement tool was obtained from 11 experts, reliability was =0.8, data were analyzed through the use of SPSS program edition 22, the analytical approaches used in this study is description and inferential analyses.

Results: outcomes of the study confirmed that know answers was 24.30%, while don’t know and not sure both answers was 25.69%.

Conclusions: the study concluded that nurses’ clinical knowledge toward PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT donning and doffing is very good.