The Microorganisms on Nurses’ and Health Care Workers’ Uniforms in the Intensive Care Units

Maha Abu Radwan and Muayyad Ahmad

Clinical Nursing Research, 2019, vol. 28, issue 1, 94-106

Abstract: The objective of this study was to identify the types of microorganisms present on uniforms of nurses, physicians, respiratory therapist, students, and housekeepers in intensive care units (ICUs). A convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants ( N = 115) who work at military hospital in Jordan. Environmental cultures ( N = 305) were taken from the participants who were nurses, physicians, students, respiratory therapists, and housekeepers. The number of participating nurses was 58 (50.43%). There were 24 types of microorganisms found on the participants’ uniforms. Staphylococcus epidermidis was found 59 times (61.3%) on the three areas of uniform culture. High level of contamination was found among all the participants, and it was the highest in physicians (85%) followed by nurse (79.3%) (χ 2 = 24.87, p

Keywords: environmental culture; hospital-acquired infection; microorganism; uniforms; nurses; intensive care unit; physicians (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773817708934

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