A Study to Assess the Knowledge of Nursing Students Regarding Needle Stick Injury at Selected Nursing College
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Knowledge, Needle Stick Injury, Nursing StudentsAbstract
Background: Needle stick injuries (NSIs) are the injuries that are caused by needles, such as hypodermic needles, blood collection needles, intravenous styles, and needles used to connect parts of intravenous delivery systems. NSIs are very common and, in many instances, unavoidable among healthcare providers when they are delivering patient care. Around 75% of the NSIs in developing countries are not reported.
Aim: This study is aimed at assessing the knowledge level regarding needle stick injury among nursing students. It also finds out if any association is present between knowledge scores on needle stick injury Demographic Variables of the samples
Material and Methods: This study has applied the descriptive research design to collect data related to knowledge regarding needle stick injury among 60 nursing students in the selected nursing institutes. A structured knowledge questionnaire had been utilized to collect the data, and the thus collected data had been analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The results revealed that about 23.34% of the nursing students in the selected nursing college were exposed to needlestick injuries. In the further assessment of knowledge, it was found that 6.67%, 75%, and 18.33% of the nursing students had good, moderate, and poor knowledge regarding needle stick injury, respectively. During the association of the knowledge and demographic variables, it was revealed that the variables of sex, type of nursing course, previous training taken for needle stick injury, and previous encounter with needle stick injury were non-significant, and the remaining variables of age and the resources of previous information were significant with the knowledge of samples.
Conclusions: We can thus conclude that the nursing students have only moderate knowledge regarding needle stick injury, and there is a need to provide more knowledge to them and create awareness among them.
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