Accordance of Nurses Practice in Blood Culture Procedure with Standard and its and its Predictors in Neonatal Intensive Care Units of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences -1395

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Abstract: Introduction: Blood culture is a procedure in NICU and gold standard procedure for ‎diagnosis ‎of newborn infections and it is necessary for appropriate management of ‎patient. The ‎present study was aimed to investigate the performance compatibility of ‎Tabriz medical ‎Sciences University nurses who worked in NICU.‎ Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted ‎using ‎convenience sampling method on 90 nurses working at Alzahra, Taleghani and ‎Tabriz ‎Children Hospital. The study tools included a two-part questionnaire, the first ‎part of ‎which focused on demographic characteristics of the infants and nurses and the ‎service ‎area, and the second part was a checklist of the nurses' performance in pre & ‎post of ‎blood culture procedure. Data analysis was performed using SPSS (ver.21) ‎statistical ‎software as well as descriptive and Analytical statistics. Findings: while 72.6 present of nurses …trained about blood cultures sampling ‎workshop. ‎The average percentage of the total performance score before and during and after ‎‎blood culture sampling was 13.20 ± 2.57 and 12.48±2.14‎ and 11.08‎±‎1/26 Discussion and Conclusion: it is necessary to provide adequate training about ‎procedure in ‎order to achieve sufficient skills. Therefore, organizations should regularly ‎improve their ‎systems in accordance with relevant standards and evaluate their ‎activities. Such studies ‎unfold the advantages of application of the standards as well as ‎disadvantages of their ‎neglect.