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
چکیده
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.