Title: Investigation on hand washing status of the undergraduate nursing students
Abstract: Objective:To investigate the hand washing condition of undergraduate nursing students.Methods:Fifty nine undergraduate nursing students who had practiced in 6 tertiary hospitals in Wuhan for 10 months were surveyed by a self-report questionnaire.Frequency and percentage were measured for all the questions in the hand-washing questionnaire.Results:The hand washing rates of the undergraduate nursing students were 100% after invasive nursing procedure,but 49.15% when measuring body signs.Hand washing rate was more than 84.75% after contacting contaminant and visible contaminant in hands,before and after eating,entering toilet and performing nursing procedure,and after taking off gloves.There were several influence factors of hand washing,such as too busy(88.14%),no effective monitoring(66.10%),worry about dry skin(57.63%),and neglecting hand washing(52.54%).All undergraduate nursing students reported they had washed their hands for 20 seconds and 64.4% for more than 40 seconds.Conclusion:Undergraduate nursing students didn't aware that cross-infection might occur if they didn't wash hands after measuring body temperature,pulse,blood pressure and contacting patients' skin.They washed hands in order to protect themselves and lacked awareness of controlling cross-infection.There were some major influencing factors of hand washing such as overworking,lacking of effective supervision on hand washing,drying skin effects of hand washing and low awareness on hand washing.The duration of hand washing among undergraduate nursing internships is sufficient.Liquid soaps and disinfectants were usually used.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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