FINAL-YEAR NURSING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF PREVENTING EXPOSURE TO BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS IN NAM DINH UNIVERSITY OF NURSING
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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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Knowledge, nursing student, Occupational exposure
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