TY - JOUR
T1 - Nursing students' knowledge and practices of standard precautions
T2 - A Jordanian web-based survey
AU - AL-Rawajfah, Omar M.
AU - Tubaishat, Ahmad
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the Deanship of Scientific Research at Al Al-Bayt University for funding this project (Grant ID: 23/4/2012 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - Background: The main purpose of this web-based survey was to evaluate Jordanian nursing students' knowledge and practice of standard precautions. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. Six public and four private Jordanian universities were invited to participate in the study. Approximately, seventeen hundred nursing students in the participating universities were invited via the students' portal on the university electronic system. For schools without an electronic system, students received invitations sent to their personal commercial email. Results: The final sample size was 594 students; 65.3% were female with mean age of 21.2. years (SD. = 2.6). The majority of the sample was 3rd year students (42.8%) who had no previous experience working as nurses (66.8%). The mean total knowledge score was 13.8 (SD = 3.3) out of 18. On average, 79.9% of the knowledge questions were answered correctly. The mean total practice score was 67.4 (SD = 9.9) out of 80. There was no significant statistical relationship between students' total knowledge and total practice scores (r = 0.09, p. = 0.032). Conclusion: Jordanian nursing educators are challenged to introduce different teaching modalities to effectively translate theoretical infection control knowledge into safe practices.
AB - Background: The main purpose of this web-based survey was to evaluate Jordanian nursing students' knowledge and practice of standard precautions. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. Six public and four private Jordanian universities were invited to participate in the study. Approximately, seventeen hundred nursing students in the participating universities were invited via the students' portal on the university electronic system. For schools without an electronic system, students received invitations sent to their personal commercial email. Results: The final sample size was 594 students; 65.3% were female with mean age of 21.2. years (SD. = 2.6). The majority of the sample was 3rd year students (42.8%) who had no previous experience working as nurses (66.8%). The mean total knowledge score was 13.8 (SD = 3.3) out of 18. On average, 79.9% of the knowledge questions were answered correctly. The mean total practice score was 67.4 (SD = 9.9) out of 80. There was no significant statistical relationship between students' total knowledge and total practice scores (r = 0.09, p. = 0.032). Conclusion: Jordanian nursing educators are challenged to introduce different teaching modalities to effectively translate theoretical infection control knowledge into safe practices.
KW - Infection control compliance
KW - Infection control guidelines
KW - Infection control practices
KW - Standard precautions
KW - Standard precautions knowledge
KW - Web-based survey
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.05.011
DO - 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.05.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 26043655
AN - SCOPUS:84946497833
SN - 0260-6917
VL - 35
SP - 1175
EP - 1180
JO - Nurse Education Today
JF - Nurse Education Today
IS - 12
ER -