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Infection prevention climate and its influence on nursing students' compliance with standard precautions
1Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences at Al Dawadmi, Shaqra University, Al Dawadmi, Saudi Arabia.
Aim:
This study examined the influence of the training hospital's infection prevention climate on the nursing students' compliance with standard precautions during clinical training.
Background:
The concept of infection prevention climate has emerged in healthcare facilities due to the acknowledged influence of organizational culture on the compliance of healthcare workers on infection prevention and control practices. However, the influence of training hospital's infection prevention climate on nursing students' compliance with standard precautions has never been investigated.
Design:
A descriptive, cross-sectional design.
Methods:
A convenience sample of 254 nursing students in Saudi Arabia was surveyed using the Leading Culture of Quality in Infection Prevention and the Compliance with Standard Precautions Scale from October 2017-January 2018.
Results:
The students perceived their training hospital's infection prevention climate as moderately positive. The students' age, year of study, and attendance to infection prevention and control training in the last 6 months exerted multivariate effects on the four dimensions and on the overall infection prevention climate. The nursing students' compliance with standard precautions was moderate. Age, gender, year of study, attendance to infection prevention and control training, and perceived training hospital's infection prevention climate were identified as factors that significantly influenced the students' compliance with SPs.
Conclusions:
This study underscored the importance of maintaining high quality of infection prevention climate of training hospitals as it influences the development of competencies in infection prevention and control of nursing students.