Determination of isolation compliance levels of nurses working in intensive care unit to prevent hospital infections

The research was conducted between January 2019 and January 2020 as a descriptive study in order to determine isolation compliance levels of nurses working in intensive care unit in preventing hospital infections and to develop recommendations in line with the results. The population of the study consisted of 101 volunteer nurses working in eight intensive care units in Aydın State Hospital. The entire population was reached without going to sampling. The research data were collected by using the questionnaire prepared from the literatüre and the "Compliance to Isolation Measures Scale" developed by Tayran. In the first part of the survey; personal information and questions about hospital infections and isolation compliance, in the second part, "Compliance to Isolation Measures Scale" is used. Findings obtained from the study were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 program. Descriptive statistics were given as frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, mean and ± standart deviation. Chi-Square and Kruskal Wallis tests were used for data analysis. Student's t-test was used for normal distribution and Mann-Whitney test was used for non-normal distribution. The findings were discussed in the literature. The compliance of nurses with isolation measures in preventing hospital infections was found to be moderate. Gender, marital status, educational status, years of occupation, from whom they received training on isolation measures in preventing hospital infections, having sufficient information about hospital infections and isolation measures, knowing the infection rate of the unit they work with, believing that hospital infections can be controlled by education the type of isolation they apply in the unit, isolation room separation situations, the belief that the health personnel are effective in spreading hospital infections, hand hygiene is effective in preventing infections and compliance with the isolation measures have been found to affect the compliance of isolation measures. The highest statistical significance was in the route of transmission and environmental control. Age, job and training in isolation measures in preventing hospital infections were defined as variables that had no effect on their compliance with isolation measures. Effective training, observation, feedback and support from hospital management to the infection control committee are among the recommendations.