KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTS AND WORKING NURSES, MIDWIVES AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS FOR THE SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS

Abstract

To improve the safety and quality of medical activity, there is a Medical Standard for Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections. The introduction of the concept of preventive measures is aimed at reducing the risk of bumps, cuts, interventions using microinvasive and invasive methods, as well as assessing the activity or service and their risk to the patient. 

Objective: To study and assess the knowledge of health professionals - nurses and midwives, as well as nursing students, midwives and public health inspectors, about the regulatory framework for the surveillance and control of infections associated with health care. 

Materials: the general population covered 362 respondents. 

Methods: theoretical analysis, statistical methods, graphic and sociological methods. A statistics software package - IBM SPSS for Windows v.20.0 - was used to process the data. 

Results: The requirements of Decree No. 3 of the Ministry of Health of May 8, 2013 have been met. As of May 11, 2013, the following is valid (43.20% for working people and 50.70% for students, respectively), but working specialists demonstrate more knowledge about rules, the requirements for the study of carriage in hepatitis B are met, workers Specialists are more often examined for the presence of hepatitis and HIV infections compared to students (79.90% versus 59.50%).Conclusions. Medical practitioners have a significant difference in immunization against hepatitis B and are less immunized (49.80) than in the study (81.80). Working health care workers are more informed (81.30%) about the waste management system than those currently undergoing training (30.40%). Hepatitis C, Hepatitis C, HIV / AIDS after infection were in 40.70% of workers and 19.40% of students.