Transfusion factors of microorganisms to surgical wound site and examination of knowledge and behavior of operating room personnel Regarding the Principles of Infection Control

Introduction: The operating room is an appropriate place for causing severe nosocomial infections. Inappropriate staff behaviours can lead to environmental contamination in the operating room (OR) and subsequent surgical site infection (SSI). Knowledge of infection control guidelines and standards is the key to infection prevention. This study will focus on the continued assessment of OR staff behaviours and knowledge and self-efficacy regarding the principles of infection control. Methods: This research is a review-systematic article. In order to achieve the desired goals, advanced searches have been used in valid databases such as PubMed, google scholar, Science Direct, and Springer, which were firstly referred to as Knowledge, Self-efficacy, Nursing staffs, Infection control, Operating room, staff behaviours, environmental contamination and surgical site infection (SSI) total of 30 related articles were found during 2010-2018, which is the result of this research.Results: Information will be collected on: (1) OR staff present during the intervention(2) surgical procedure(3) surgical environment characteristics. the traffic with the air contamination, behavioural measures, noise and increase sound decibels as a surrogate of the SSI risk. From 62 participating nurses, 44 nurses (71%) were female, 46 nurses (74.2%) were married, 27 nurses (43.5%) had a work experience of less than ten years, and 40 nurses (65%) held bachelor’s degree. Most of the participants (42 nurses; 67.7%) had previously received in service educations about infection control from whom, 26 nurses (64%) were dissatisfied with the received educations and 28 nurses (68%) reported that they needed to participate in continung education programs on infection control. Most of the participants (41 nurses; 66.1%) had moderate infection control knowledge. female participants’ scores in the two areas of wearing gown and gloves and post-surgery infection control were significantly higher than their male counter- parts.Conclusion: assessing the correlation between the behaviour and the infectious risk in the OR were conflicting and nurses’ knowledge and self-efficacy regarding the principles of infection control in the operating room were moderate.

Keywords:

Knowledge , Self-efficacy , Nursing staffs , Infection control , Operating room.