Nurses practices regarding the prevention of nosocomial infections in the neurosurgical intensive care unit

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Objectives: This study was conducted for determining nurses’ interventions to preventive nosocomial infections seen in a neurosurgery intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and methods: The study population was comprised of with 10 nurses who worked in the neurosurgery ICU of a university hospital in Ankara. The data were collected using a questionnaire and an interventions form. In the analysis of data number of the account was used. Results: Mean knowledge level of the study population was 10.4 on 28 points in the questionnaire. While it is noted that the nurses take measures to prevent some of the nosocomial infections, which are included intervention form, there were no measures against surgical wound infections, meningitis, shunt infections that are seen infrequently in the neurosurgical units. Conclusion: Nurses’ knowledge on nosocomial infections and their interventions to prevent nosocomial infections were found to be inadequate and outdated.

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neurosurgical , intensive care unit , infection control , nursing , nosocomial infection

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