Challenges Facing Nursing Profession in Implementing COVID -19 Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Health Care Settings | ||
| Mansoura Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 127-140 PDF (813.36 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mnj.2023.320382 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Eman Abd Elatey* 1; Hanan Badran* 2; Karima Elshamy* 2 | ||
| 1Clinical Instructor, Technical Institute of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt | ||
| 2Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt, | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Covid 19 is one of the most serious expanding pandemics which affecting all people worldwide. Nurses are responsible for introducing care to covid 19 patients. There are many challenges facing them during implementation of covid 19 prevention and control practices related to nurse and work organization Aim: The study aimed to assess challenges facing nursing profession in implementing covid-19 infection prevention and control practice in health care settings. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was utilized with convenient sample of 203 nurses from three different hospital sectors, Mansoura University Hospitals, Ministry of Health Hospitals and Mansoura Health Insurance Hospital at Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used in this study, nurses’ knowledge and nurses’ challenges related to covid 19 infection prevention and control practices. Results: More than half of nurses (54.7%) showed good knowledge levels. The highly most common challenges faced nurses were lack of personal protective equipment and fear of infecting themselves and other. Conclusion: There are many challenges facing nurses during implementing covid -19 infection prevention and control practice, the most common challenges were lack of personal protective equipment and fear of infecting themselves and others. Recommendation: Continuous educational programs for nursing profession about covid‐19 infection prevention. periodical evaluation for nurses’ performance to ensure proper adherence to the preventive measures, continuous updating for the nursing education curriculain about principles of infection prevention and control practices and maintaining availability of necessary resources. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Challenges; Covid 19; Epidemic; Infection Prevention Measures; Nursing Profession | ||
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