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Siham M. Al-Momani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Allied Medical Sciences, Al Balqa' Applied University, Jordan, JO

Abstract

This study examine the effect of college - community interaction initiative on the willingness of the nursing students to work with mentally disabled patients in mental health care institutions. The PRECEDE-PROCEED Model was utilized to develop, implement and evaluate the initiative intervention. A convenience sample of 60 nursing students who pass the mental health nursing course and chose not to re practice in the mental health care institutions attended focus group discussion to identify the predisposing, reinforcing, enabling factors and their suggestions to improve the quality of mental health care institution as a practice area for nursing students. One week after participated in the college - community interaction initiative the potential participants were asked to re fill the Willingness to practice in Mental Health Care Questionnaire as a post intervention assessment. Significant increase in the number of the nursing student who chose to re practice in the mental health care institution as a first or second choice after previous refusal accepted as an indicator of improving the nursing students willingness to work with mentally disabled patients in mental health care institutions as a result of their participation in the college - community interaction initiative program. Results support nurse educator's use of college-community interaction initiatives as a means to improve the nursing students' willingness to work with mentally disabled patient in mental health care institutions.

Keywords

Mental Health Care, Willingness to Practice, Mentally Disabled Patients, College-Community Interaction Initiatives, Associate Nursing Students.

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Siham M. Al-Momani ¹, Waleed Al Momania ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Allied Medical Sciences, Al Balqa’ Applied University, P.O. Box 19117, Al-Salt, JO

Abstract

Compliance with Standard precautions is the most important factor in controlling hospital acquired infections, so it becomes a topic of high concern for all health workers. Associate nursing students who come into contact with patient blood and body fluids may be exposed to fatal infections. This raised the need to improve the students compliance with standard precautions through their own reflection, proposed this active approach will incorporate cognitive, emotional and behavioral potential abilities of the students. This study was carried out to determine the effect of students own reflection on their compliance with standard precautions. A pre - and post- intervention study with a 14-week follow-up utilizing reflection in action and on action model was conducted. A purposive sample includes 30 students, who were enrolled in the associate nursing program, agreeing to participate in the study. Compliance with standard precautions significantly increased during the intervention. Hepatitis B vaccine coverage among the participants increased from 68% preintervention to 100% at 14-week follow-up. Needle stick and sharp injury exposure declined among the participants from 57% pre-intervention to 4% at 14-weeks follow-up. The outcomes of this study provide evidence that the nursing students own reflection facilitates their compliance with standard precautions, so reflection as a learning strategy helped nursing students learn from their own experiences and improve their practice.

Keywords

Standard Precautions, Hospital Acquired Infections, Infections, Intervention.

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