Examining how the nurses working at hospitals in the center of Afyon prevent from the hepatitis-B infection

2SUMMARYThe purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of nurses towardinfection of hepatitis-B. Additionaly, nurses vacination situations were examined andsuggestions for protection of the nurses from hepatitis-B at the area of clinicalpractises according to the research results were investigated in this study.The study was performed at the period of November of 2005 and December of2006. The participants were a total of 152 nurses from Afyon Public Hospital, AKÜPractising and Research Hospital, Afyon Hospital for Chest Diseases, SSK Hospital,Zübeyde Hanım Birth Hospital. The data were collected by a questionnairedeveloped by the researcher and analysed by SPSS 13.0.The results of the study revealed that although 97,4% of the nurses weresurveyed to control their hepatitis-B injection situations, the 7,9% of them did notknow their immunity positions. Moreover, it was found that 88,2% of the nurses didnot have hepatitis-B infection, 3,9% of them had that infection and none of themwere carrier of hepatitis-B.Furthermore, the study showed that 80,3% of the nurses vaccinated hepatitis-Binjection and 88,5% of that proportion of the sample vaccinated regularly. Also, itwas determined that 78,3% of the participants were injuired by the injections.Consequently, it was stated that the vaccination of the nurses participated in thestudy were found extremely high.The statistical significant relationships were not found between the nurses? ageand vaccinating hepatitis-B, taking in-service training about hepatitis-B infection andvacinating, their experience time in their job and vaccinating and injuires by theinjections, infections of hepatitis-B and injuires by the injections.Keywords: 1. Hepatitis B2. Nurse3. General PrecautionsPDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com