Abstract Penelitian

Relationship between knowledge of health and safety work with prevalence of accident among nurses in the treatment room of General Hospital Province

Dr. Soedarso 2014

Erlan Ade Putra¹, Lidia Hastuti², Yenni Lukita²

1.       Student of Undergraduate Nursing Study Program, Muhammadiyah of Institution Nursing, Pontianak, Indonesia

2.       Lecturer of Nursing Study Program, Muhammadiyah of Institution Nursing, Pontianak, Indonesia

Abstract

Research Background: The hospital is the center of health service to the community, thus all health care worker including nurses must be healthy in order to provide the best services. Nurses who work in the hospital are at risk of work-related accidents such as infected by infectious diseases or needle prick injury. Thes work-related accidents can occur due to various factors, among which is lacked of knowledge of health and safety.

Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge of health and safety work with prevalence work accident among nurses working in treatment room.

Methods: The was a quantitative research with cross sectional approach. The data was collected using self-administered with 146 respondents randomly selected. Chi-square test was used to examine the relationship.

Result: The results showed the relationship between knowledge of healthy and saftey work with prevalance work accident was not significant (p=0.30).

Conclusion: Conclusion of this research result was knowledge of good and less good can happen work accident by 96.6% to no relationship between knowledge of health and safety work with prevalence of accident among nurses in the treatment room of General Hospital Province Dr. soedarso.

Keywords: Knowledge of health and safety work, prevalence work accident