Knowledge of Inpatient Nurses on The Implementation of Handwashing Standard Operating Procedures

Abstract

The nurse is one of the medical personnel in the hospital who is most often in contact with patients and has the potential for disease or infection. Therefore, health care facilities including in RS X Purwodadi usually have Handwashing Standard Operational Procedure as part of the infection prevention and control guidelines. However, based on reports at RS X Purwodadi, there were inpatient nurses who did not wash their hands according to the procedure, namely 40% in rooms I and II and 20% in rooms III, IV and V. The independent variables are knowledge. The dependent variable is the implementation of the hand washing SOP. This type of study is analytic observational with cross sectional approach. The population in this study is 77 inpatient nurses, and sample of this study is 65 inpatient nurses. The sampling technique in this study used proportional random sampling method. Data analysis was performed univariate and bivariate using the chi square test. Most of the nurse implementation SOP washing hands is well, namely 83.1%. Nurses with good knowledge are 80%. The results of the chi square test variables related to the implementation of hand washing SOP were knowledge (p value = 0.014). The conclusion obtained from this study that there is a relationship between knowledge with the implementation of hand washing SOPs in inpatient nurses in X Purwodadi.