在患者护理环境中使用手持紫外线设备进行消毒:一项描述性的定性研究
Robin Keene1, Piyali Chatterjee2, Chetan Jinadatha2
1Central Texas Veterans Research Foundation, Temple, Texas, USA.
Nursing & health sciences
|August 28, 2023
概括
前线护士愿意采用新技术,如紫外线消毒设备,以预防医疗保健所获得的感染 (HAI). 然而,新技术必须是用户友好的,安全的,并且可以明显改善患者护理,而不会阻碍工作流程.
科学领域:
- 预防和控制感染的预防和控制.
- 护理技术的采用护理技术的采用
- 医疗保健中的环境卫生
背景情况:
- 在医疗保健中获得的感染 (HAI) 仍然是一个重大挑战,尽管标准的感染控制实践,如手部卫生和表面消毒.
- 患者护理环境中的环境污染有助于HAI的持续存在.
- 紫外线 (UV) 光消毒为环境卫生提供了一个补充策略,新兴的技术旨在安全地暴露人类.
研究的目的:
- 探索一线护士对一种用于环境消毒的新型手持紫外线装置原型的反和看法.
- 确定在临床环境中采用和有效使用新的消毒技术的潜在障碍和促进因素.
主要方法:
- 采用了定性研究设计,利用与前线护士进行简化个人或小组讨论.
- 16名注册护士的方便样本参加了讨论.
- 对转录的讨论进行了主题分析,以确定反复出现的主题.
主要成果:
- 从护士的反中出现了四个主要主题:时间考虑,使用的复杂性,安全问题 (对于患者和护士来说) 和希望的技术特征来增强患者护理.
- 护士表示愿意将新技术整合到他们的实践中.
- 接受的关键因素是技术在改善患者护理方面的感知价值及其对现有工作流程的不破坏性.
结论:
- 护理人员接受创新的消毒技术,只要它们被认为对患者的结果有益,并且不会造成额外的负担.
- 在技术开发过程中,尽早纳入最终用户 (护理人员) 的投入对于识别和减轻接受和实施的潜在障碍至关重要.
- 未来的消毒技术应优先考虑易用性,安全性和患者护理的明显好处,以确保成功融入临床环境.
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