Background — Nosocomial infection (NI) is among the most common and serious challenges in a healthcare system. Health workers medical students play an important role prevention of NI. Despite advances field medicine Kazakhstan, low detection rate NIs remains unchanged, which could be due to lack awareness standard precautions for control health workers. This study aimed at examining knowledge j...

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an infection control education (ICE) program based on digital story-telling for new graduate nurses.Methods: From June 2 July 30, 2022, a total 58 nurses (30 and 28 in experimental group, respectively) at tertiary general hospital D city were enrolled. The effects evaluated using nonequivalent non-synchronized design. terms awareness st...

try to force another (“last”) coil in, with subsequent risk of the need for retrieval. With these technical precautions, unraveling of a coil during withdrawal will be rare. We believe that the drawback of possible coil stretching and unraveling in standard coils without stretch resistance is only a minor clinical issue that is outweighed by the shortcomings of the SR filament in terms of handl...

Introduction Primary prevention is the most important and effective way to prevent blood borne pathogens in the health care workers. This study was carried out to evaluate primary prevention in nursing staff of three teaching hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Materials and methods This is a cross-sectional study among nursing staff of three teaching hospitals. Data were col...

Standard precautions require all clinical equipment to be cleaned between patient use.1 Cleaning equipment of patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) had previously involved a 2-step cleaning processwith detergent andwater followed by disinfection with hypochlorite solution 1,000 ppm using a disposable detergent wipe or paper towel. Environmental services have been using...

BACKGROUND Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can be transmitted through blood, vaginal secretion, infected semen, breast milk as well as blood containing saliva, vomitus and urine. Health care workers (HCWs) are at risk of HIV infection; and standard precautions is a guideline to be followed by HCWs to prevent it. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge, attitude an...