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Inventi Impact: Nursing Research

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  • Inventi:hnr/19169/16
    Knowledge, Practice, and Associated Factors towards Prevention of Surgical Site Infection among\nNurses Working in Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2016 : April - June
    Freahiywot Aklew Teshager, Eshetu Haileselassie Engeda, Workie Zemene Worku

    Knowledge and practice of nurses about surgical site infections (SSIs) are not well studied in Ethiopia. This paper contains findings\nabout Northwest Ethiopian nurses� knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of SSIs. Themain objective of the study was to\nassess knowledge, practice, and associated factors of nurses towards the prevention of SSIs.The study was done using a questionnaire\nsurvey on randomly selected 423 nurses who were working in referral hospitals during the study period. The study showed that\nmore than half of the nurses who participated in the survey had inadequate knowledge about the prevention of SSIs.Moreover,more\nthan half of them were practicing inappropriately.The most important associated factors include lack of training on evidence based\nguidelines and sociodemographic variables (age, year of service, educational status, etc.). Training of nurses with the up-to-date\nSSIs guidelines is recommended.

    How to Cite this Article
    CC Compliant Citation: Freahiywot Aklew Teshager, Eshetu\nHaileselassie Engeda, and Workie Zemene Worku, â??Knowledge,\nPractice, and Associated Factors towards Prevention of Surgical\nSite Infection among Nurses Working in Amhara Regional State\nReferral Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia,â? Surgery Research and\nPractice, vol. 2015, Article ID 736175, 6 pages, 2015.\ndoi:10.1155/2015/736175, http://creativecommons.org/\nlicenses/by/4.0/.
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