The Compliance of Intern Nursing Students With Isolation Precautions; During COVID-19 Pandemic Process

Abstract

Aim: The present study was conducted to determine the level of compliance of intern nursing students with isolation precautions and the factors affecting them.
Material and Method: The research was carried out with fourth-year nursing students in the internship program in a university hospital between December 2020 and April 2021. The data were collected using the “Participant Information Form” and the “Isolation Precautions Compliance Scale”.
Results: It was determined that the students received a total of 76.11±9.86 points from the Isolation Precautions Compliance Scale. The statistical analysis indicated that there was no significant difference between the compliance with isolation precautions and the variables of age, gender, the type of the clinic, the training received about isolation precautions and providing care to the isolated patient (p>0.05). However, it was found that the difference between the compliance with isolation precautions and the variables of the pandemic process and knowing the infection rate of the institution was significant (p<0.05).
Conclusion: It was concluded that the compliance of the intern nurses with isolation precautions was quite high.

Keywords

• Isolation
• Standard precaution
• Hospital infection
• Nurse

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