Factors Influencing Emergency Department Nurses’ Compliance with Standard Precautions Using Multilevel Analysis

Nurses\' Compliance with Standard Precautions Based on Health Belief Model in Emergency Departments

Abstract Introduction: Nurses' compliance with standard precautions is a viable tool for decreasing health hazards in health centers. Objective: This study aimed to identify factors affecting compliance with standard precautions (SPs) of infection control based on the health belief model (HBM) among emergency department nurses employed in the educational-therapeutic centers affiliated with G...

Factors influencing nurses' compliance with Standard Precautions in order to avoid occupational exposure to microorganisms: A focus group study

BACKGROUND Nurses may acquire an infection during the provision of nursing care because of occupational exposure to microorganisms. Relevant literature reports that, compliance with Standard Precautions (a set of guidelines that can protect health care professionals from being exposed to microorganisms) is low among nurses. Additionally, high rates of exposure to microorganisms among nurses via...

Factors Influencing Nurses' Use of Hazardous Drug 
Safe-Handling Precautions.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with oncology nurses' use of hazardous drug (HD) safe-handling precautions in inpatient clinical research units.
. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional.
. SETTING The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
. SAMPLE 115 RNs working on high-volume HD administration units. 
. METHODS Survey data were collected o...

Emergency Department Crowding: Factors Influencing Flow

BACKGROUND THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THOSE FACTORS, BOTH INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) THAT INFLUENCE TWO SPECIFIC COMPONENTS OF THROUGHPUT: "door-to-doctor" time and dwell time. METHODS We used a prospective observational study design to determine the variables that played a significant role in determining ED flow. All adult patients seen or waiti...

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