Compliance and Contributing Factors of Standard Precautions Usage Among Emergency Nurses in Palestine During COVID_19 Pandemic رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This study was aimed to assess the level of compliance toward standard precautions (SPs) and identify the contributing factors influence usage of SPs among emergency nurses during COVID-19 pandemic in the west bank. Method: All nurses who works in emergency departments was targeted, which was 225 nurses. Quantitative, cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire in the limited period (27th of February to the 6th of May, 2021) were used. In order to analyze the responses of the members of the study sample descriptive statistic (mean, standard deviation SD) were used. Results: The level of compliance toward SPs among emergency nurses during COVID-19 pandemic in the west bank had a percentage of 51.1% (poor compliance). According to source of information of SPs, the results revealed that MOHP and WHO website was the most one used (68.0%), and revealed that there was significant differences between television& lectures as source of information and the mean nurse’s compliance to SPs, television (p =0.004), lectures (p= 0.006) which is less than 0.005. The analysis also revealed that the most factors affecting emergency nurses’ compliance with SPs during COVID-19 was “There is not enough gloves”(81.3%), “Gloves cause skin irritation” (76.4%), Recommendation: create new strategies and intervention to strengthen workplace policy, strong support and supervision are highly recommended, improving education and training for nurses, provide adequate human and material resources.