DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i02.021

Pages: 463-467

Aims: 1) To investigate nurses’ knowledge about nosocomial infections. 2) To evaluate the effectiveness of the educational program regarding nosocomial infections on nurses. Methodology: An educational program was carried out on a simple random sample of (50) nurses (from different educational levels) who work in different wards at Al-Basra Teaching Hospital. The project's instrument was a questionnaire including information about both demographic characteristics and nosocomial infection. The sample was involved in pre-and post-test on the program which lasted eight days. Results: The results show that the highest percentage (36%) of sample were aging nurses group (20-29) years, the lowest percentage (10%) of the sample were aged less than (20) years old. The highest percentage (54%) female, the lowest percentage (46%) was male. According to educational level the highest percentage (36%) were secondary school graduate, while the lowest percentage (8%) were college education. The highest percentage (30%) was grouped (1-5) years, while the lowest percentage (10%) of the sample was of the group more than (16) number years' work. The majority of nurses have deficit knowledge about etiology modes of transmission, spread nosocomial infections and symptoms. There was a high difference regarding knowledge between pre-test and post-test. Conclusions: The present findings show the effectiveness of the program through the highest percent of excellent for nurses' responses concerning nosocomial infection knowledge between pre- and post- program for the case group, and the majority of nurses' responses to the case group at post program had good knowledge concerning nosocomial infection than program. The majority of nurses have deficit knowledge about etiology modes of transmission, spread nosocomial infections and symptoms. There was a high difference regarding knowledge between pre-test and post-test. Recommendations: Majority nurses have deficit knowledge about nosocomial.....