The Relationship of Universal Nurse Knowledge Precautions with Precautions for Nosocomial Infections

The low awareness of nurses to carry out nursing actions causes be very vulnerable transmission infection because in providing care patients will have direct contact with blood and body fluids. Universal precautions require health workers treat all equally using universal regardless the disease. purpose this study was determine relationship between knowledge about Precaution prevention Nosocomial Infections at Royal Prima Hospital Medan. This type research is analytic a cross-sectional design. population were ICU, NICU, PICU, inpatient disease rooms postoperative as many 58 people. Sampling use saturated sampling results chi-square test degree significance (α) = 0.05 df 4 obtained calculation results, namely X²count 16.948 > X²table 9.488 p-value 0.002, then Ha accepted, there nurses' Precautions measures. In conclusion, Infection measures hospitals. It expected that respondents increase their so preventive are carried properly accordance standards can prevented