Andi Fajrin Permana
University of Salford, UK
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Adv Practice Nurs
The level of the nosocomial infection in the care room 1 of Hasanuddin University Hospital shows a value of 5,56% in the fourth quarter of 2014 indicated the higher value compared to the standard Decision of the Health Minister (DHM) No. 129 of 2008, which is < 1.5%. Some effort to prevent it, is the management implementation of the primary team task method and the study of the nurses� experiences about the patient safety. The aim of the research is to look at the illustration of the application of the primary team model and the experience of the Hasanuddin University Hospital. The research used a combined method of the quantitative and qualitative approach. The data collection was conducted through questionnaires, interviews, observation, and documentation study. The research result 4 themes of the qualitative findings were found namely: the illustration of the prevention of decubitus and flebitis; the effectiveness of the primary team method in preventing the decubitus and flebitis; the nurses� discipline in their effort to prevent infection; and the nurses� main constraints in preventing infection, such as the inadequate availability of the decubitus mattresses with the ration of 1:50 patients and the inadequate number of nurses against the number of patients with the ratio of 1:9. Thus, it could be concluded that the application of the primary team modification and the effort to prevent the decubitus and flebitis had been carried out well, the experience of the nurses had proven that the primary team tasks had helped the effort to prevent infection. andifajrinpermana@yahoo.com
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