Awareness and Compliance to Standard Precautionary Measures: A Study among Nurses at Madonna University Teaching Hospital, Elele, Rivers State | Chapter 3 | Disease and Health Research: New Insights Vol. 8

 

Standard precautionary measures (SPMs) are essential infection control practices designed to prevent the transmission of infectious agents in healthcare settings. These measures, including hand hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and safe injection practices, are fundamental in ensuring the safety of both healthcare workers and patients. The study aimed to evaluate the awareness and compliance with standard precautionary measures among nurses at Madonna University Teaching Hospital (MUTH) in Elele, Rivers State. The investigation was guided by two research questions aligned with the study's objectives and utilized a descriptive survey research design. The sample comprised 102 nurses from various wards and units within MUTH. Data was gathered using a self-structured questionnaire, which was validated by field experts and tested for reliability using a test-retest method, resulting in a high correlation of 0.86. Out of the 102 distributed questionnaires, 92 were returned, resulting in a 90% response rate. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequencies and percentages. Results indicated that 89 out of 92 respondents (96.7%) demonstrated good knowledge of standard precautions, and 80 (86.96%) adhered to these measures. Statistical analysis revealed no significant relationship between years of service and compliance with standard precautions (χ² (2, .05) = 0.425), leading to the retention of the null hypothesis. The study concluded that nurses at MUTH generally possess good knowledge and compliance with standard precautionary measures. Recommendations include enhancing and supporting factors that contribute to better adherence to these protocols. The study suggests that secondary and health institutions should enhance their provision of equipment and facilities to further improve compliance with these measures.

 

Author (s) Details

Frank, Maureen, D
Department of Nursing Sciences, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 

Amagboruju Victoria
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 

Robinson-Bassey, Grace.C
Department of Nursing, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 

Ibudeh Sandra
Department of Nursing, Madonna University, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 

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An Exploration into Nurses’ Experiences Regarding Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance Programme Implementation in eThekwini District | Chapter 1 | Disease and Health Research: New Insights Vol. 10

Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance Programme (ICRMP) is one of several quality improvement initiatives implemented in South Africa aimed at improving quality health care services provision, especially at the primary health care (PHC) level The South African National Department of Health introduced the ICRMP in response to challenges experienced in PHC services and to lay a strong foundation for the National Health Insurance implementation. The progress report 2015–2016 on the implementation of this programme indicated that achieving the 50% target in selected vital areas such as staffing, resource allocation, and utilisation was not achieved. This study was conducted in 18 PHC clinics in eThekwini district, KwaZulu-Natal aimed to explore and describe nurses’ experiences regarding the ICRM implementation. An exploratory descriptive, contextual qualitative design was employed guided by Donabedian’s structure, process, and outcomes model. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 24 nurses between 15 September and 25 October 2020 following receipt of ethics and analysed using Tesch’s open coding approach. It is evidenced in research that infrastructure is important in supporting the fundamental aim of promoting improved standards of care and well-being for all patients, and a good experience of the healthcare system by healthcare users. The three themes that emerged included structural limitations, processes involved in running the clinic, and support offered to the PHC clinics. These were highlighted as challenges experienced by nurses during the implementation of an ICRMP. Nurses’ negative experiences and perceptions made it difficult for them to accomplish the ICRMP standards. The findings from the study highlighted critical actions by the health care institution management which if instituted, could facilitate improved implementation of the ICRMP and achievement of the 50% target in selected vital areas. Nurses’ negative experiences and perceptions make it difficult for them to accomplish the ICRMP standards. The researchers propose a number of recommendations which if instituted, could facilitate improved implementation of ICRMP and achievement of the 50% target in selected vital areas.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Thembelihle S.P. Ngxongo
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.

 

Mthokozisi Zulu
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.

 

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Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management Styles among Nurses in Pakistan | Chapter 6 | Contemporary Research in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 8

 

Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, express, understand, and manage emotions. It is an essential factor that may measure individual’s performance in their professional lives beyond their daily lives, increase or decrease their success, contribute to the measurement of managerial qualities, and improve organizational communication and interaction. In healthcare organizations, conflict management is crucial because incapable conflict management causes undesirable working conditions, control recreations, constant disappointment, a rebate inside the quality of care, and a rise in healthcare costs. The present study aimed to identify the role of emotional intelligence on conflict management styles among nurses. The sample consisted of 400 nurses, and the model was taken from four public and four private hospitals located in Multan City. A purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data, and the age range was between 25 to 45 years. Two research instruments were used to collect the data. The emotional intelligence scale developed by Schutte et al. (2018) was used and consisted of 33 items. The interpersonal conflict inventory developed by Rahim (1983) was used and consisted of 28 items. This study showed the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles; integration, obliging, dominating, and compromising are positively correlated with the score of emotional intelligence, and avoiding was negatively correlated with emotional intelligence. The results further showed a significant difference in age in emotional intelligence among nurses, and there is also a significant difference in age in conflict management styles among nurses. Moreover, the results revealed a significant difference in emotional intelligence and conflict management styles among the nurses of public and private hospitals. Emotional intelligence is positively and significantly correlated with conflict management styles. Thus, an analysis of the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles can assist management in initiating a tailor-training program to improve their abilities to manage conflict among the nurses and the administrative healthcare staff of both public and private hospitals.

Author(s)details:-

 

Mehwish Liaqat (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Senior Demonstrator)
(MMDC) Multan Medical Dental College Multan, Pakistan.

 

Nazia Jahangir (Permanent Lecturer)
Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan.

 

Iqra Ghafoor
Department of Psychology, Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan.

 

Dr. Qurratulain Fatima (Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences)
(MMDC) Multan Medical Dental College Multan, Pakistan

 

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ICU Nurses and Burnout | Chapter 6 | New Visions in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 7

This article summarizes existing literature and experiences about the work environment in intensive care units by health professionals especially nurses as they are the constant and major workforce in the health care field. Intensive care units are dedicated sections of hospitals where medical staff members give continuous care and advanced life support around-the-clock. Nurses are considered to be at high risk due to stressful working environments including emergency care, high mortality & morbidity, ethical dilemmas, and pain care causing physical and emotional exhaustion leading to Burnout Syndrome. Although there is a vast literature on burnout among ICU nurses, there is a constant need to investigate emerging risk factors and ways to prevent and manage them. This article aims to discuss regarding working environment the nurses in ICUs are at risk and their solutions at individual, collaborative, and systemic levels which may decline burnout among ICU nurses.

Author(s) Details:

Nikita Saini,
AIIMS, Bhopal, M.P., India.

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Healthcare Workers Infected with COVID-19 in a Tertiary Care Center, Kerala, India | Chapter 10 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 8

This study names the characteristics of healthcare laborers who tested beneficial for COVID-19 in a tertiary care clinic in India. Healthcare workers (HCW) are at high risk of gaining infections all along novel disease outbreaks, especially before the broadcast dynamics are sufficiently outlined. Therefore, it is detracting to investigate the prevalence and risk determinants among HCWs. A explanatory cross-sectional study was conducted middle from two points 22 July 2020 and 31 January 2021 in a 900-bed tertiary clinic in South Kerala, India. The study was conducted among HCWs from a after second care centre with a honest-time polymerase vicious circle (RT-PCR) test positive for COVID-19 on a nasopharyngeal swab. All healthcare laborers with rooted SARS-CoV-2 infections were contacted over the phone to collect dossier regarding their probable beginning of contact, usage of  individual  protective supplies,and clinical course. Their treatment annals was extracted utilizing electronic health records. During the study ending, 192 HCWs were RT-PCR positive for COVID-19.The mean age of the study members was 34.01 years. Among the infected, 23.4% were male clerks, while the remaining 76.6% were female members. Nurses were most commonly damaged (36.5%), followed by doctors (22.9%) and housekeeping stick (15.6%). Healthcare workers happening an increased risk of COVID-19 infection not only on account of their close contact with very infectious patients,but more through exposure to undiagnosed or subclinical spreading cases.Protection of HCWs from infection is fault-finding for the resilience of the health plan now burdened with facing a main pandemic like COVID-19. Infected HCWs collected the infection from the hospital in 73.4% of cases,while 38.6% had direct trade patients or associates. Ensuring the willingness of health care peasants to work in named COVID-19 wards is essential. Trust in being protected is the most forceful factor influencing the ambition of health peasants during a pandemic. HCWs are at raised risk of healthcare-associated contaminations due to the frontline nature of their work.

Author(s) Details:

Sahya S. Dev,
Department of Community Medicine, P. K. Das Institute of Medical Sciences, Vanniyamkulam, Kerala, India.

Joe Abraham,
Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.

Abraham Varghese V.,
Department of General Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.

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Explaining the Concept of Home Health Care Services- A Review | Chapter 10 | Emerging Trends in Disease and Health Research Vol. 9

A wide range of services are referred to as "home-based care," including professional caregiving, nursing services, home-based primary care, and hospitalisation at home for patients who are chronically ill and bedridden. A significant portion of these patients are bedridden, immobile, or have chronic illnesses like dementia, heart disease, cancer, chronic liver diseases, chronic lung diseases, hypertension, diabetes, etc. The hospital's services are extended into the patient's home with the help of home healthcare services. Home care services, on the other hand, range from simple assistance with daily tasks like dressing, grooming, ambulation, changing diapers, helping with the toilet, and meal preparation to more complex nursing services like wound dressing, feeding through a nasogastric tube, catheter change, injection, and tracheotomy. Home health care services' main objectives are to support patients' highest degree of well-being, increase their ability to function and live independently, and enable them stay at home instead of being sent to a hospital or long-term care facility. About 50 research papers on patients, nurses, general duty assistance, and elderly people were analysed by the researchers in the current study. The need for treatment in the most effective and efficient environment has grown as the proportion of older clients with numerous chronic diseases keeps increasing. As a result, patient preferences and satisfaction are increasingly being used as performance indicators; nonetheless, it is the patients' and their families' obligation to ensure that the nurses and GDAS are working in a safe and secure atmosphere.

Author (s) Details:

Ramandeep Bawa,
ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research), Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

A. K. Sinha,
Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

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Study about Job Satisfaction with Perceived Organizational Support and Quality of Care among Saudi Nurses | Chapter 13 | Emerging Trends in Disease and Health Research Vol. 8

The current study aims to evaluate both direct and indirect relationships between nurses' work satisfaction and perceived organisational support and their impact on the standard of healthcare in Saudi Arabia. The most significant aspect that directly affects the health-care sector is thought to be job satisfaction with the standard of care provided, since patient dissatisfaction increases if nurses do not treat their patients well. The degree to which employees are content with their jobs—whether they like the job overall or certain aspects of it, including the type of work or the rules—is referred to as job satisfaction. Targeting all accessible nurses employed by Saudi Arabia's major governmental hospitals between March 1 and April 30, 2020, a correlational cross-sectional technique was used. Online surveys were used to get the data. Although there was a little positive impact of organisational support on the standard of care, it was only marginal. Employee loyalty and a sense of security will increase when hospitals and other healthcare institutions improve their working environments. Loyalty and safety perception are the main characteristics that result in high levels of work satisfaction with quality medical treatment. Organizational support should include both monetary and psychological benefits. The impact of work satisfaction and organisational support on healthcare quality was significantly correlated. Organizational support had a positive impact on dissatisfaction, which in turn had an impact on the standard of care given.

Author(s) Details:

Salha M. Assiri,

Nursing Administration Specialist, Ministry of Health, Abha, Saudi Arabia.

Shehata F. Shehata,

Faculty of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia and High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Maha M. Assiri,

Nursing Administration Specialist, Ministry of Health, Abha, Saudi Arabia.

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Occupational Stress, Social Relationships at the Workplace, Psychological Wellbeing and Coping Strategies of Nurses and Midwives: A Study in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region of Ghana | Book Publisher International

 Occupational stress, social interactions at work, psychological well-being, and coping methods of nurses and midwives in Ghana's Catholic Health Service Western Region were explored in this study. The study used a quantitative research approach and followed a positivist research ethic. The investigation was conducted using a descriptive cross-sectional study design. A total of 300 nurses and midwives (nurses = 237; midwives = 63) were chosen from four Catholic hospitals in Ghana's Western Region. A questionnaire based on Nurses' Occupational Stress Scale was used to collect information from participants, with Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWB 18 items) used to measure psychological wellbeing, the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI-SF, 1989) used to measure the type of coping strategies used, and the Worker Relationship Scale developed by Biggs, Swailes, and Baker (2016) used to measure the level of social relations. The one-sample t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficients, one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, regression, t-test, and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The study found that nurses and midwives in the Western Region of the Catholic Health Service have significantly higher levels of stress, positive psychological wellness, and favourable work-related social relationships. Occupational stress was also found to be marginally and weakly linked to psychological well-being and workplace social interactions in the study. According to the findings, nurses and midwives employed both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping techniques in dealing with occupational stress, however problem-focused coping strategies were utilised more frequently. Furthermore, the findings of the study revealed that psychological well-being and social ties at work have a substantial impact on nurses' and midwives' experiences of occupational stress. Occupational stress has a substantial impact on the psychological well-being of nurses and midwives, according to the findings. It was suggested that the Ministry of Health hire Counselling Psychologists for all Ghanaian health institutions in order to satisfy the counselling needs of nurses and midwives, as well as other health workers in general. In addition, the Ministry of Health and its agencies should dispatch sufficient nurses and midwives to areas where they are most needed and guarantee that they report to those locations. Workshops on coping methods, social interactions, and psychological well-being will be offered to nurses and midwives, as well as ongoing professional development.

Author(s) Details

Eric Kwasi Elliason
Department of Counselling and Wellbeing, Modal College, Sogakope, Ghana.

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A Cross-Sectional Study of Staff Nurses' Awareness and Practices about Standard Precautions in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South Karnataka | Chapter 6 | Issues and Development in Health Research Vol. 4

 Hospital-acquired infections are illnesses acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility where the sickness was not present or incubating at the time of admission (HAIs). Infections among the facility's health care personnel, as well as illnesses acquired in the hospital but showing up after discharge, are covered. Nurses have a vital role in the control and prevention of HAIs in all health-care settings, and their knowledge and practises are critical. The purpose of this study was to see how well-informed and how well-practiced conventional precautions are among the staff nurses. Materials and Methods: The current study was a hospital-based descriptive study that took place at Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences in Chamarajanagar from January to March 2017. Simple random sampling was used to choose 40 staff nurses, and data was obtained using a pretested and semi-structured questionnaire. The statistical analysis was carried out using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. The majority of respondents, 35 (87.5%), were aware of the Infection Control Committee (ICC) and the Central Supply and Sterilization Department (CSSD), and more than 90% were aware of segregation and disposal according to BMW rules. Before and after touching patients, the majority of staff nurses, 38 (95 percent), washed their hands and put on personal protection equipment. Despite the fact that more than half of the study participants, 23 (57.5%), had suffered a needle stick injury, only 19 (47.5%) of them reported it and sought treatment. Hepatitis B vaccinations were given to 24 (60%) of the staff nurses. Conclusion: The current study shows that staff nurses have an adequate level of knowledge and practise when it comes to conventional precautions, and it also identifies numerous areas where educational interventions are needed.

Author(s) Details

Dr. Trupti B. Naik
Department of Microbiology, Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, India.


L. Bhageerathi
Department of Microbiology, Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, India.

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Assessing Nurses Journey of Postoperative Pediatric Pain Care Using Participation Observation in Indonesia: A Qualitative Study | Chapter 11 | Challenges in Disease and Health Research Vol. 2

 

Children continue to experience significant levels of pain during hospitalization despite proliferation of
pain research, advances in pain management knowledge and treatments, and improved methods to
relieve pain. Effective pain management remains an elusive goal in Indonesia. Many children in
Indonesia endure pain from surgery, illness, trauma, nursing interventions and other medical
procedures during hospitalization. Unrelieved post-operative pain in children continues to be a major
clinical problem, despite advances in pain management in Indonesia. Nurses spend more time with
hospitalized children than any other health care providers and they play a vital role in the assessment
and management of the children’s pain. Good pain management practice greatly influences the
quality of care given to affected hospitalized children and their families. The significance of the study
is to address the gap in nurses’ knowledge of pain management may be having. This study seeks to
explore nurses post-operative pain care in an Indonesian Hospital.

Author (s) Details

Dr. Henny Suzana Mediani,
Department Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. 

Ikeu Nurhidayah
Department Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia.

Ai Mardhiyah
Department Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia.

Sri Hendrawati
Department Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia.

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