Effectiveness of Instruction Program on Nurses Knowledge about Transmission and prevention of Hepatitis B Virus Infection by Instruments in Operating Room at Wasit Teaching Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Hepatitis B is a potentially life-threatening liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is a major global health problem. It can cause chronic liver disease and chronic infection and puts people at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer. Objectives: To assess Nurses Knowledge and determine the effectiveness of instruction program on nurses knowledge about transmission and prevention of hepatitis B virus infection by instruments in operating room. Methods: A quasi-experimental design participants who are not randomly has conducted in the present study .Data collection has done from at two times : pre- test and post -test and interventions of the program for the study group ,carried out instructional program applied in nurses knowledge about Transmission and Prevention of Hepatitis B Virus Infection by Instruments in Operating Room at Wasit Teaching Hospitals. Non – probability sample ( purposive sample) consists of 60 nurses who are working in operating room at Wasit city’s hospitals in two teaching hospitals. Results: The study exhibits that instructional program is highly effective on nurses’ knowledge regarding transmission and prevention of viral hepatitis B in the operating room as indicated by high significant difference in times of pre-test and post-test at p-value=0.001 respectively among the study group. While among the control group, it show no significant difference in pre-test and post-test time. Conclusion: The study confirms that the instruction oriented program on nurses study group is significant, and that there were statistical differences between level of education and year of experiences in operating room with knowledge.
Recommendations: Training course is necessary to increase nurses’ knowledge toward preventing of HBV in operating room. The nurses should attend more training on infection control because the training can give theoretical background pertaining to prevention of infection.