Pilot evaluation of isolation patients' perceptions on ability to identify types of health care workers when wearing isolation gowns - 18/04/17
, Karen Gabel Speroni, MHSA, PhD, RN b, Amy Stafford, DNP, MSN, RN, CMSRN b, Dorothy J. Seibert, PhD, MSN, RN, CIC bHighlights |
• | Patients ranked their ability to identify health care workers when entering their hospital room as important, and most specified all health care workers should wear a preprinted large font sticker badge on their isolation gowns. |
• | Patients had difficulty identifying the health care worker type of those with no hospital badge under or on the isolation gown (average Registered Nurse and Nursing Technician ranking, 8.7, where 0 is not at all difficult and 10 is very difficult) and those with a partially visible hospital badge through the isolation gown (average Registered Nurse ranking, 8.0; Nursing Technician ranking, 7.8). |
• | Preprinted large font adhesive sticker badges with Registered Nurse or Nursing Technician on the outside of the isolation gown significantly improved patients' ability to identify health care worker type. |
Abstract |
In a survey research study, perceptions of 50 hospitalized patients on contact isolation were evaluated regarding their ability to identify health care worker (HCW) type in isolation gowns with no hospital badge under or on the gown, in isolation gowns with the hospital badge partially visible through the gown, and in isolation gowns with a preprinted large font Registered Nurse and Nursing Technician sticker badge on the outside of the gown. Patients ranked their ability to identify HCWs when entering their hospital room as important (average ranking, 8.0, where 0 was not at all important and 10 was very important); 28 patients (56%) specified all HCWs entering their hospital room should wear a preprinted large font sticker badge on the outside of their isolation gowns. Patients found little difficulty identifying HCW type with the large font preprinted sticker badge (average difficulty ranking, 1.0, where 0 is not at all difficult and 10 is very difficult), a simplistic method to improve HCW type identification.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : Nurse, Identification, Isolation precautions, Patient satisfaction, Patient perceptions, Identification badges
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Vol 45 - N° 3
P. 324-326 - mars 2017 Retour au numéro
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