Hygienic hand washing among nursing students in Turkey

Çelik, Sevim; Koçaşlı, Sema

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2006.12.001

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“…These findings contrast with previous studies that have found inconsistent infection prevention knowledge among student nurses (Celik and Kocasli, 2008; Darawad and Al-Hussami, 2013; Hinkin and Cutter, 2014). This variation may result from the variety of instruments that researchers have used to evaluate student nurse knowledge, or may indicate cultural differences, with previous studies being conducted in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Taiwan, Jordan, and the US.…”

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“…Nurses are critical in preventing healthcare-associated infections, with nursing-driven procedures, including nurse initiated urinary catheter removal protocols resulting in sustained reductions in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (Meddings et al, 2014; Parry et al, 2013). While numerous studies continue to highlight the important role nurses play in infection prevention, only a handful of studies have examined the infection prevention education that nurses receive prior to entering the workforce (Celik and Kocasli, 2008; Darawad and Al-Hussami, 2013; Hinkin and Cutter, 2014). These studies have assessed certain infection prevention areas, e.g.…”

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Reported hours of infection education received positively associated with student nurses' ability to comply with infection prevention practices: Results from a nationwide survey

Carter

Mancino

Hessels

et al. 2017

Nurse Education Today

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reported hours of infection education received positively associated with student nurses' ability to comply with infection prevention practices: Results from a nationwide survey

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Mancino

Hessels

et al. 2017

Nurse Education Today

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“…found a high rate of nurses who use liquid soap (99.3%). Çelik and Koçaşlı 24 found that 71.6% of nursing students used liquid soap. In a Turkish study conducted in neonatal intensive care units, it was determined that 16.7% of nurses use alcohol‐based hand disinfectants 25 .…”

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Assessing undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' compliance with hand hygiene by self‐report

Gül

Ustundag

Zengin

2012

Int J of Nursing Practice

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The aim of the study was to assess undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' hand hygiene (HH) compliance. The questionnaire included questions about HH behaviours and compliance during patient care, and Fulkerson scale was used to relate HH to cleanliness of various activities. 57.4% of them reported that they used liquid soap for HH. 18.6% of them did not dry their hands after washing. 65.9% of them said that they performed HH when passing from one patient to another. HH rates were 80.7% after removing gloves. The first six activities on the Fulkerson scale were described as 'clean'; most of the students assessed the third, fourth, fifth and sixth activities as 'dirty'. Compliance with HH was high for all dirty and clean activities. Self-report method indicates compliance with HH which was an easy and inexpensive way to provide the information on HH.

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“…The probability of a passenger going to the restroom is therefore considered to be 1/160 every minute. According to the statistical data from different scenarios, the probability of a person washing their hands is anything between 70 and 90 percent202122. For our purposes we set the probability of hand washing at 80 percent (the average value).…”

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Contact infection of infectious disease onboard a cruise ship

Zhang

Miao

Huang

et al. 2016

Sci Rep

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Cruise tourism has become more popular. Long-term personal contact, complex population flows, a lack of medical care facilities, and defective infrastructure aboard most cruise ships is likely to result in the ship becoming an incubator for infectious diseases. In this paper, we use a cruise ship as a research scenario. Taking into consideration personal behavior, the nature and transfer route of the virus across different surfaces, virus reproduction, and disinfection, we studied contact infection of infectious disease on a cruise ship. Using gastroenteritis caused by the norovirus as an example, we analyzed the characteristics of infectious disease propagation based on simulation results under different conditions. We found hand washing are the most important factors affecting virus propagation and passenger infection. It also decides either the total number of virus microorganisms or the virus distribution in different functional areas. The transfer rate between different surfaces is a key factor influencing the concentricity of the virus. A high transfer rate leads to high concentricity. In addition, the risk of getting infected is effectively reduced when the disinfection frequency is above a certain threshold. The efficiency of disinfection of functional areas is determined by total virus number and total contact times of surfaces.

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Hygienic hand washing among nursing students in Turkey

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

Reported hours of infection education received positively associated with student nurses' ability to comply with infection prevention practices: Results from a nationwide survey

Reported hours of infection education received positively associated with student nurses' ability to comply with infection prevention practices: Results from a nationwide survey

Assessing undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' compliance with hand hygiene by self‐report

Contact infection of infectious disease onboard a cruise ship

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