@Article{, title={Nurses’ Knowledge about Infection Prevention for Patients with Leukemia معارف الممرضيه حىل الىقاية مه العدوي لمرضً سرطان الدم}, author={Safad Riyadh Isam}, journal={kufa Journal for Nursing sciences مجلة الكوفة لعلوم التمريض}, volume={10}, number={1}, pages={1-8}, year={2020}, abstract={Background: Typically, patients with leukemia require immediate therapeutic intervention but most patientsseek medical attention for symptoms related to anemia, infection, or bleeding. For undetermined reasons, feverand infection also increase the likelihood of bleeding, thus, the patients with leukemia are always threatened byinfection.Aims of the study: The study aims to assess the nurses’ knowledge about infection prevention for patients withleukemia and to find out the relationship between their knowledge and demographic characteristics (years ofexperience and training courses).Methodology: A descriptive study carried out at Baghdad teaching hospital and starting from September 7th,2019 up to December 17th, 2019.This study used a non-probability (purposive) sample of (30) nurses that caringof patients with leukemia at medical wards at Baghdad teaching hospital. The data collected with designedquestionnaire, which consists of two forms; nurses’ demographic characteristics and nurses’ knowledge aboutprevention of infection. The validity of the questionnaire was determined through an expert panel and itsreliability was determined through a pilot study by test – retest which was estimated as averages (R=0.87). Datawas collected by direct interview and data was analyzed by application of descriptive & inferentialstatistical methods (frequency, percentage, mean of score, Pearson correlation and Chi-Square).Results: The results of the study indicated that the study sample was male (70%), (53.4%) within age group (20-29 years), (60%) was living in urban areas, and (40%) was single. (46.7%) was having (4-6) years of experiencein oncology wards.Conclusion: The results showed that the majority of study sample reflect a moderate significance of knowledgein the measures taken by the nurse toward infection prevention, while showing low significance in patientteaching about infection prevention. In addition, there is a high significant relationship between nurses’knowledge and their years of experience and having training courses inside and outside Iraq.Recommendations: The study recommended starting a set of specialized training courses concerning theinfection prevention under the supervision of academic and practitioner experts and further guidelines ofinfection control must applied in medical wards at Baghdad teaching hospitals

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