HUBUNGANPENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP PERAWAT DENGAN PENCEGAHAN INFEKSI NOSOKOMIAL DI RUANGRAWAT INAP RUMAH SAKIT PARUdr. ARIO WIRAWAN SALATIGAJAWA TENGAH

2015-03-01

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Nosocomial infection is infection that acquired by patients from hospital after gets 72 hours medical treatment. It makes hospital the most vulnerable place to be infected this nosocomialinfection. For the prevention of the nosocomial infection, knowledge and nurses attitude are very required.To know thecorrelation of knowledge and nurses attitude toward prevention of nosocomial infection at dr. Ario Wirawan Lung Hospital Inpatient Salatiga Central Java.This research usedanalytical surveywithCross Sectionalstudy design. The population were all theinpatient nurses in dr. Ario Wirawan Lung Hospital class 1-3. The amount of 48 respondents were taken with saturated sampling technique. The data analysis using the Multiple Linear Correlation test with 5% significance level.Results:The level of respondents knowledge are good that is 56.2%, respondents attitude either that is 95.8%, prevention of nosocomial infection are good that is 75.0%, the result of Kendall Tau correlation test shows that nurses knowledge toward prevention nosocomial infection is value of significance (p) = 0.019 < alpha value = 0.05, the result of Kendall Tau correlation test toward nurses attitude with prevention nosocomial infection is value of significance(p)= 0.016 < alpha value = 0.05, the result of Multiple Linearcorrelation knowledge and nurses attitude toward prevention of nosocomial infection is value of significance (p) = 0.01< alpha value = 0.05, and based on the value of the Standartdized Coefficients Beta nurses attitude more dominant is 0.309.Conclusion:There are possitive correlation between knowledge and nurses attitude toward prevention of nosocomial infection. Keywords :Knowledge, attitude, prevention of nosocomial infection.