IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH (IJHPR )

E-ISSN 2545-5737
P-ISSN 2695-2165
VOL. 7 NO. 1 2022

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Safety Practices in Prevention of Hospital Acquired Infections among Health Care Workers in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State

Oparanma Florence Uche, Chibuzor Chika & Boma Iweriso George

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Abstract

The study investigated the Safety practices in prevention of hospital acquired infection among health care workers in Ikwerre Local Government Area. Two (2) research questions and corresponding hypotheses guided the study, descriptive research design was used, the study population was 240 hence the sample size. The instrument was self-structured questionnaire titled “Questionnaire on safety practices in prevention of hospital acquired infection” was used for data collection, it was validated by three specialist in the department of Human Kinetics, Health & Safety Education, a reliability index of 0.72 was obtained, data was collected and analyzed using special package for social sciences SPSS, the result of the findings reveals that health care workers in Ikwerre Local Government Area had a fair level of safety practices and fair knowledge of nosocomial diseases. However it was concluded that training and years’ experience is related with safety practices among healthcare workers hence it was recommended that government and intervention agencies should organize safety awareness training on nosocomial infections among health care workers

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