FINAL-YEAR NURSING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF PREVENTING EXPOSURE TO BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS IN NAM DINH UNIVERSITY OF NURSING

Vũ Thị Là, Hoàng Thị Minh Thái, Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng, Phạm Văn Tùng, Nguyễn Thị Lĩnh

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Objective: Describe final-year nursing students’ knowledge of preventing exposures to blood and body fluidsin Nam Dinh University of Nursing. Subjects and method: Finalyear full-time nursing students were randomly selected to answerquestionnaires. Results: mean scoresof concept and mode; fundamental health care; prevention measures; emergency first-aid; reporting and making a report; assessment of risk and the source of infection are in turn 8.38; 8.36; 9.38; 7.84; 8.13; 7.07 and 5.99points. Conclusion: Final-year nursing students' knowledge of preventing exposure to blood and body fluidin Nam Dinh University of Nursing is moderate with the mean score is 7.71 ± 0.71points/10 points. The domainsin which students’ knowledge is at an average level are emergency first-aid and assessmentof  infection source.

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