Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of healthcare-associated infection control in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Hospital X

Method: This research used an observational descriptive design with a cross-sectional approach, using univariate analysis and that conducted on 28 ICU nurses with saturated sampling techniques.

Results: The results showed that 77.8% of nurses adherence to hand hygiene in April 2019, 53.6% of nurses showing VAP bundles that are not good, 60.7% of nurses who showed not a good UTI bundles, 78.6% of nurses have not received IPC’s basic education and training, 20.4% of VAP Incidents in April 2019 and 35.3% of VAP incidents in May 2019.

Conclusions: The findings of this study have clarified that the knowledge of ICU nurses has implications for applying infection control practices in the hospital. Strategy changes the behavior of nurses could do with regular education programs of infection and activities to motivate nurses is expected to increase the knowledge and practice of nurses to control the HAIs.

Keywords: healthcare-associated infections, ICU, Nurse