A research report submitted to the
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of
Master of Science in Nursing
Johannesburg, 2016 / The purpose of the study was to determine knowledge of nephrology nurses’ on evidence
based guidelines for the prevention of haemodialysis catheter related infections. The study
was done in 5 haemodialysis units from two university-affiliated, public sector and tertiary
level hospitals in Gauteng which are: “Baragwanath Hospital and Charlotte Maxeke
Academic Hospital”.
Face and content validation of the research instrument “Evaluation questionnaire
concerning nurses’ knowledge of interventions for prevention of haemodialysis catheterrelated
bloodstream infections” was done by a panel of experts to ensure applicability of
the instrument to the South African context. Prior to commencement of the study, ethical
clearance and permission to conduct the study was obtained from the relevant authorities
and the university committee. A non-experimental, descriptive, prospective study design
was utilised in order to meet the objectives of the study. Descriptive and comparative
statistics were used to analyse the data which was done in consultation with a statistician.
Knowledge was reorganised as poor (0-50%), average (50-70%) and good (71% and
above). Overall, participants performed well in the second part of the questionnaire where
their knowledge was tested regarding evidence based guidelines in prevention of vascular
access infection; the majority 72.50% (n=58) scored more than 71%, indicating they have
knowledge of evidence based guidelines on prevention of vascular access infection, 20%
of participants scored between 51 and 70%, whilst only 2% scored below 50%.
A positive correlation (with moderate strength) between age and experience (r=0.563) was
established indicating that as age increases the experience will also increase moderately. A
slight negative correlation, which was very weak (null correlation) was also established
between years of experience and performance as most respondents were above and below
the regression line. Therefore years of experience has no influence over performance. / MT2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/21382 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Ntlhokoe, Mphanye Joseph |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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