Nursing Student’s Knowledge and Perception of Preventing Intravenous Catheter Infections in West Bank, Palestine
Mustafa.shouli, Rebhi Bsharats* and Hamdallah Abu Khallid
ABSTRACT
Aim of study: The aim of this study is to assess nursing students' knowledge and perception of preventing intravenous catheter infections.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study including 300 nursing students from Nablus University for Vocational and Technical Education and An-Najah National University was carried out. A questionnaire that was self-administered and covered demographics, perceptions of infection prevention, and knowledge of peripheral intravenous cannulation was used to gather data. The analysis employed both descriptive and inferential statistics.
Result: the participants in the study, 66.1% were female, 56.7% were from NNUH, and 39.4% were in their second year of study. In terms of peripheral cannulation knowledge, 70.6% of respondents were informed; NNU students scored better (9.11 ± 1.29, p=0.013) and females scored higher (8.49 ± 1.65, p=0.012). Of the participants, 65.6% reported having a positive perception, which was substantially correlated with being female (7.41 ± 2.06, p=0.000), enrolled at NNU (7.38 ± 2.19), and in the fourth academic year (7.76 ± 2.27, p<0.05).
Conclusion: The student’s level of knowledge of PVC insertion and care was (70.6%), and this show more than half of student above average. About the perception the result show that the participants had positive perception (65.6%). The female higher score than male and the NNU higher score than Nablus University in both knowledge and perception.
