Standard precautions for preventing Tuberculosis and HIV: Compliance of Eswatini university student nurses.

ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus are among the top ten causes of death globally. To prevent the spread of these infections, health workers and student nurses should comply to infection prevention and control measures called standard precautions. The aim of this study is to assess compliance of Eswatini university student nurses regarding standard precautions for preventing Tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus. A non-experimental quantitative approach was used to conduct a survey on all senior student nurses of Eswatini University using questionnaires. IBM SPSS Statistics version 26 software was used to analyse the data. Results from this study showed that out of the 105 student nurses who were asked only 51.4% (n = 54) said they always used personal protective equipme

SUBMITTER: Gina NSV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717969 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature