Impact of Acute Respiratory Diseases Emergency Preparedness Training Program on Nurses Adherence to Infection Control Principles in Primary Health Care Clinics and at Home
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Impact of Acute Respiratory Diseases Emergency Preparedness Training Program on Nurses Adherence to Infection Control Principles in Primary Health Care Clinics and at Home,AZZA H. EL-SOUSSI, SAHAR M. SOLIMAN and SAHAR Y. OTHMAN
Abstract
Community-wide preparedness for pandemic influenza is an issue that has featured prominently in the recent few years. Activating the implementation of public health inter-ventions before and during the epidemic targeted to limit the spread of infection. World Health Organization protocol recommended to follow respiratory and hand hygiene, physical separation and personal protection in primary health care clinics and at homes. Because nurses at the triage stations of different primary health care settings, they are in need of training program to improve their emergency preparedness capabilities in the primary health care clinics and at home care. The present study aim to assess the impact of acute respiratory diseases (ARDs) emergency preparedness training on nurses’ adherence to infection control principles in Primary Health Care clinics and at home and Disseminate healthy messages to lay people to follow infection control principles at home A quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The study sample included 134 participants of public health nurses from four different districts of the Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt.
Six Tools: Were developed by the researchers utilized during the current study including: Essential knowledge of ARDs emergency preparedness Questionnaire, (total scores= 180), feedback of program satisfaction and perception to ARDs program Questionnaire, Infection control principles in (PHC) Observation Sheet (total scores= 124), Infection control instruction at home Observation Sheet (total scores=24) and family knowledge regarding infection control measures to ARDs interview sheet (total scores=24) and family perception regarding to ARDs interview sheet.
Study Results: Illustrated a positive shift in knowledge and skills for public health nurses. The total percentage of gained knowledge was 109.6% after the implementation of training program. The results of this study showed a significant improvement in the participants’ adherence to infection control principles (ICP) in PHC and at home care. Moreover, more than 97% of participants reported that the training program was well organized, its objectives were achieved and it rein-forced the importance of emergency preparedness, results there was significant difference between families awareness in rural and urban related to house waste disposal.
Conclusion: The ARDs emergency preparedness training program was effective and feasible in improving the perfor-mance of public health nurses on emergency response. Further studies are needed to investigate the efficacy of the training approach for competency improvement.