Factors Influencing Perioperative of Nurse’s Compliance with Infections Prevention Guideline in Selected Hospitals, Kogi State

Abstract

The study utilized a cross-sectional descriptive design to access the Factors Influencing Perioperative of Nurse’s Compliance with Infections Prevention Guideline among selected Hospitals in Kogi State, with a sample size of 53 was achieved. An ethical approval and authority to conduct a study was granted. A self-structured questionnaire and observational checklist was used for data collection with reliability index 0.768. The respondents were selected using the purposive sampling technique and data gathered was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics at 0.05 significance level. The study revealed that majority (83%) of the respondents had a good knowledge of compliance and 71.7% of the respondents had good level of compliance. Factors affecting infection prevention include lifestyle habit such as skin bleaching, smoking, alcohol or drug abuse (94.3%), poor operating room ventilation (94.3%), poor sterilization of instrument (98.1%), immunosuppressant diseases (100%), skin preparation procedure (96.2%), duration of surgery (64.2%) and associated medical conditions (69.8%). This study concludes that the Factors Influencing Perioperative of Nurse’s Compliance with Infections Prevention Guideline among selected Hospitals in Kogi State has no influence on their level of compliance, high work load as well as lack of infection control policies and guidelines affects compliance with infection control practice. It is therefore recommended that the need for comprehensive measures to hospital policies that will reinforce compliance with the use of PPE, regular training of perioperative nurses on infection prevention guideline, and employing higher numbers of perioperative nurse in Kogi State Hospital by the hospital management board.