Laddawan Jantarasri MSc*, Poonsap Soparatana MSc**, Wanchai Moongtui PhD**, Worapot Tantisiriwat MD***, Somwang Danchaivijitr MD****
Affiliation : *Tasala Hospital, Nakorn Sri Thammarat,**Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, ***Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vachira Hospital, Srinagarindviroj University, Bangkok, ****Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok
Objectives : To evaluate the roles of infection control nurses (ICNs) and to detect problems, obstacles during
work and needs for support in community hospitals.
Materials and Methods : A descriptive study, data from interview and questionnaire survey of 2 ICN from HA
awarded hospitals and 146 IC nurses from hospitals applied for HA.
Results : From April to May 2002, questionnaires were returned for 115 (81.56%) plus 7 interviews for a total
of 122 samples. The practiced HA IC roles included counseling (86.5%), surveillance (83.1%), administration
(82.8%), employee health (82%), education (80%), quality development (76.3%), epidemic investigation
(72.2%) and research (10.4%). The major problems and obstacles included inadequate IC knowledge, mul-
tiple responsibilities, inadequate cooperation, less administrative support, inadequate budget and docu-
ments.
Conclusion : The present study suggested that the IC research role was the least done because of inadequate
knowledge, too heavy work load and lack of administrative support.
Keywords : Roles, Infection control nurses, Community hospitals
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