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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

ABRIL 2017 N° 3 Volumen 20

Good practices in hand hygiene among nurses with accredited professional competence

Section: Originals

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Brea Rivero P, Rojas de Mora Figueroa A, Julián Carrión J, Salguero Cabalgante R, Herrera Usagre M. Buenas prácticas en higiene de manos de las enfermeras que han acreditado su competencia profesional. Metas Enferm abr 2017; 20(3): 20-28.

Authors

Pilar Brea Rivero1, Ana Rojas de Mora-Figueroa2, José Julián Carrión3, Rocío Salguero Cabalgante4, Manuel Herrera Usagre5

Position

1Doctora por la Universidad de Málaga. Responsable del programa de acreditación de competencias profesionales. Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía2Enfermera. Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía3Doctor por la Universidad de Sevilla. Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía4Especialista en Enfermería Obstétrico-Ginecológica. Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía5Doctor en Sociología. Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía

Contact address

Pilar Brea Rivero. Agencia de Calidad de Andalucía. C/ Seda, 5 (Polígono Hytasa). 41006 Sevilla.

Contact email: brea@juntadeandalucia.es

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the knowledge about hand hygiene demonstrated by nurses with their competence accredited through the Accreditation Program by the Agency for Healthcare Quality from Andalusia (ACSA), and to determine if there are differences according to the individual characteristics of said professionals.
Method: a descriptive transversal study based on the Hand Hygiene Knowledge Questionnaire for Health-Care Workers by the WHO (translated and validated for the Spanish setting), conducted on 2,136 tests provided by nurses during their accreditation processes, from July, 2011 to January, 2016. Data collection was conducted through the computer application ME_jora P. The SPSS v.13 software and R Package were used for analysis.
Results: nurses showed a high level of knowledge regarding hand hygiene; there were significant differences in terms of correct answers according to gender, age, position, and the level of accreditation achieved.
Conclusions: there was a remarkable level of knowledge on essential aspects of hand hygiene among the nurses tested. Those nurses with the highest level of accreditation (Expert and Excellent) presented the highest mean level of correct answers, and had more probabilities to become leaders in terms of hand hygiene.

Keywords:

Hand hygiene; hospital infection; accreditation; professionals; competence; good practice; research; descriptive study; Descriptive Study

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Título:

Buenas prácticas en higiene de manos de las enfermeras que han acreditado su competencia profesional

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