Background
In Jordan's nursing schools, infection prevention precautions are not taught in special
courses. Instead, most nursing schools include the topic as a 1-hour lecture within
the clinical courses, which is believed to be insufficient. This study aimed to test
the effectiveness of a nursing infection prevention educational program presented
to nursing students before graduation, to promote their knowledge of infection prevention
precautions.
Methods
A true experimental design was used to examine the effects of the infection prevention
educational program on students' educational knowledge. This study involved a random
assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups, and administration of the
pretest and the posttest to all subjects in both groups separately.
Results
Participants in the experimental group demonstrated significantly better knowledge
(t = 19.15; df = 95; P = .000) and attitude scores (t = 2.29; df = 46; P = .04) than participants in the control group after particpating in the infection
prevention educational program. However, compliance scores were not significantly
differernt between the 2 groups (t = 1.92; df = 95; P = .067); indeed, compliance was found to be significant within the experimental group
(t = 10.65; df = 46; P = .000).
Conclusions
It is important that nursing students be competent in infection prevention precautions;
however, there may be deficits in their education in this area. The nursing curriculum
should include additional emphasis on practice as a means to help translate theory
into clinical behavior.
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Publication history
Published online: October 04, 2012
Footnotes
This research was funded by the University of Jordan.
Conflict of interest: None to report.
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