A comparative study on knowledge, attitude, and practice of injection safety among nurses in two hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria
Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This descriptive study took place in University College Hospital and Adeoyo Maternity Teaching Hospital, Ibadan.Convenience Sampling Technique was used for selecting study participants while data collection was done with the aid of questionnaire.Following ethical approval, a total of 295 and 105 questionnaires were administered face to face respectively in the two participating centers.However, only 385 were fit for analysis.The mean age of the respondents was 37 years and most of them (92.5%) were females.All have heard about injection safety.Their knowledge level was high, 70.4% knew that unsafe injection predisposes to blood-borne infection, 55.9% had correct information that two-handed recapping is not a safe injection practice while, 84.4% claimed that contaminated sharps predisposes the community to bio-hazards and 293 (76.1%) had correct information that used syringes and needles should be discarded in a sharp waste box.However, the high knowledge was not translated to practice.Half (50.4%) of the recently sustained injuries was through intramuscular or subcutaneous injections.Only 15.6% reported the injuries to their institution.Out of the total respondents, 62.9% knew that their hospitals have injection policies while 53.2% said that nurses are not involved of such policies.Doctors were alleged by 79.5% as the health care workers who most frequently leave sharps at the patients' bed side.Nurses, as the nerve centre of the healthcare enterprise, must be advocates of safe injection practices.
Authors: Prisca Olabisi Adejumo, F A Dada
Institution: University of Ibadan
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4238915193