THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND NURSE'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PERMANENT PROCEDURES IN INFUSION INSTALATION
Keywords:
Infusion procedures, nurses, knowledge and attitude, hospital managementAbstract
Background: Hospital and other health service facility must implement the prevention and control of infection (PPI) in accordance with the Decree of the Minister No 270/MINISTER/2007. However, in 2010, at Lung Hospital "Dr. H. A. Rotinsulu Bandung”, Indonesia, among 868 patients who had the infusion, the incidence rate of phlebitis reached to 2.64 %. In the infusion installation management, nurses must have knowledge, skills and adequate attitude toward the procedure.
Aims: This study aims to assess how nurses' knowledge to the infusion procedure affects their attitude.
Method: It was a descriptive study using a cross sectional approach. A total of 70 nurses from lung hospital "Dr. H. A. Rotinsulu Bandung”, Indonesia, was selected using random sampling technique from April to July 2011. The nurses work in hospital ward, intensive care unit and emergensy instalation. The respondents were given questionnaire regarding to the assessment of nurses' knowledge and attitude. The collected data was analyzed using Person test to show the association between nurses' attitude and their knowledge to the infusion procedure.
Results: Most of respondents (57.1%) work for 11-20 years. While 38.6% nurses employ less than 10 years, there were 14.3% nurses work for more than 21 years. However, as shown in Table 3, out of 70 nurses, only 50% have good knowledge to the infusion procedure, while 32.9% nurses have enough understanding. The rest 17.1% need more attention, where 2 of that 12 nurses orchestrated negative attitude to the procedure. In addition, the statistical analysis shows that the relationship between the knowledge and the attitude of nurses about infusion procedures was found significant (p value = 0.002).
Conclusion: The results shows the length of work will not affect to the better knowledge of nurses to the infusion procedures. The negative attitude that found among the nurses indicated the importance to highlight this issue to the hospital management. Attention to their understanding to the infusion procedure will improve their attitude, in return it can prevent accident during the handling.
Downloads
References
Depkes RI. 2008. Petunjuk Pelayanan Indikator Mutu Pelayanan Rumah Sakit. WHO Direktorat Jenderal Pelayanan Medik.
Perry and Potter. (2011). Fundamental Nursing. The Edition 7.Jakarta : Salemba Medika
Max Joseph Herman. (2016). of infrastructure and Government Hospital in the prevention and control of infection in
Indonesia. The Journal of Pharmaceutical Indonesia
Schaffer. Et. All. ( 2002). prevention of infection and practices that secure. Jakarta : Medical book publisher EGC.
Gayatri, D., Handayani, H. Hubungan Jarak Pemasangan Terapi Intravena Dari Persendian Terhadap Waktu Terjadinya
Plebitis. Jurnal Keperawatan Universitas Indonesia, Volume 11, No.1, hal 15;2007. Available from :
repository.ui.ac.id/.../6700d2fb60561ed49a0e7b1dc8723c59f6dd9a3 2.pdf
Darmawan, I. (2008). Penyebab dan how to resolve Phlebitis. Accessed from http://www.Iyan@Otsuka.com.id.
on 12 June 2017.
Brunner and Suddarth. (2010). Nursing medical reasons Surgical Vol 1 Edition 8. Jakarta : book publisher Kedoktern EGC.
Departemen Kesehatan R.I. (2005). Rencana Strategi Departemen Kesehatan. Jakarta: Depkes RI
Notoatmodjo, S.(2003). education and health Behavior. Jakarta : Rineka Copyright.
Azwar, A. (2003). Medical Research Methods and Public Health.Jakarta : Binarupa characters
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Each author(s) agree to transfer all copyrights and assign YAYASAN ALIANSI CENDEKIAWAN INDONESIA THAILAND, the Publisher of Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Health, for the full term of exclusive copyright and any extensions or renewals of that terms thereof throughout the world, including but not limited to publish, disseminate, transmit, store, translate, distribute, sell, republish and use the Contribution and material contained therein in print and electronic form of the journal and in other derivative works, in all languages and any form of media of expression available now or in the future and to license or permit others to do so.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Health is an open access following Creative Commons License Deed – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material with one condition--appropriate credit is given to the journal.
