FACTORS AFFECTING INJECTION SAFETY OF VIETNAMESE NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

Unsafe injection practices are widespread in developing countries, harming the patients and inviting risk to the health care worker. Therefore, the investigation about practice of safe injection, as well as factors influencing safe injection among nursing students who are in undergraduate degree is essential in the context of Vietnam. The goals of this study were to describe factors relates to safe injection practice among nursing students. A cross-sectional survey was carried out from 1st February 2019 to 15th March 2019 with the participants being 264 nursing students. In survey used questionnaires to collected the characteristics and assess knowledge about a safe injection of nursing students. In this study, majority 84.5% was female, 68.9% of nursing students have academic levels were good, the subjects participating in the study performed an average of 7.20 injections a day (SD=2.463). Most of the injections observed from the participants were taken in the morning with 98 injections with 37.1%. The type of injection that most subjects performed was intravenous with 87.5%. The percentage of nursing students who have knowledge of safe injection was found to be 54.2 %. The proportion of practical injections that met the 23 standards of injection safety amounted to 33%. Most nursing students have good knowledge, but many nursing students have poor practice safe injection; the ratio to comply with the practice safe injection process was low. Need to be active, proactive, improve knowledge, and practice safe injection, especially learning, remembering, and practicing the right actions when injecting.