| Learning Objective #1: understand shorter employment nurses realized the responsibility of hand washing stronger and practiced it effectively than longer employment nurses. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: understand promoting “the consciousness of the responsibility of hand washing” for preventing infection was the most important issue. |
Valid responses were obtained from 925 nurses and percentage of collection of the questionnaire was 91.8%. As for statistical analysis, Varimax multivariable analysis was utilized with SPSS (Ver 12.0J).
The following five factors were extracted based on the results of the multivariable analysis of a questionnaire; 1) identifying the need for judging the effect of disinfection, 2) certain occasions of hand washing, 3) eagerness of learning technique of hand washing, 4) consciousness of the responsibility of hand washing, and 5) acquired techniques of hand washing.
As the result, nurses of shorter employment practiced hand washing effectively and their consciousness of the responsibility of hand washing was stronger than nurses of longer employment.
Implications for technical nursing education were discussed as promoting “the consciousness of the responsibility of hand washing” for preventing infection was the most important issue and , and “acquired techniques of hand washing”, or “identifying the need for judging the effect of disinfection” was secondly issue.
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