Many nurses often skip some vital infection control measures, as found in a report conducted by Donna Powers, DNP, RN, of Kransoff Quality Management Institute in New York, according to MedicalResearch.com.
Here are five things to know:
1. The report found 17.4 percent of ambulatory nurses reported compliance with all nine standards for infection control.
2. When ambulatory nurses anticipated exposure of their hands to bodily fluids, 92 percent wore gloves.
3. Sixty-three percent reported washing hands following glove removal.
4. Researchers also found knowledge of HCV was varied. HCV is not efficiently transmitted by sexual activity, yet 26 percent of nurses reported believing HCV was transmitted by sexual activity.
5. The report found the ambulatory care nurses chose to implement some behaviors and not others, putting many at risk of obtaining a bloodborne infection.
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