Nurses’ Practices toward Aseptic Techniques at Kidney Transplant Center in Baghdad City

The study aims to evaluate nurses practices toward using Aseptic Techniques, and toidentify the relationships between nurses' demographics including (age, gender, education level, and years of experiences in kidney transplantation units) and theirpracticestowardaseptic techniques. A quasi-experimental study, quantitative design (One-group) was conducted on nurses practice toward aseptic techniques in kidney transplant units. It was carried out in order to achieve the early stated objectives with the application of pretest and posttest. A non-probability (purposive) sample of (30) nurses who are working in kidney transplant unit, thats selected based on the study criterion, and after obtaining oral consent from them, those nurses were distributed in kidney transplant units at Medical City complex. The study Instrument was composed of two Parts: The First Part is concerned with the socio-demographic characteristics, and the second Part includes Nurses' Practices. Content validity of the instrument was established through a penal of (12) experts. Reliability of the instrument scales determined the internal consistency by using test-retest approach through the computation of Pearson correlation coefficient of the scale which was r=0.83 for nurse' practices. Results have been analyzed through the use of SPSS "Statistical Package for Social Sciences" model 24.0 by using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Findings of the present study revealed that most of the samples were within the age of (40 - 49) years who were accounted (40%). It has been presented that there were significant differences in the mean of the study sample between the pre and post test procedures, revealing a significant improvement in nurses' practices regarding using of Aseptic Techniques. Moreover, a high significant difference was also presented among the whole study sample at pre and post-test practices, t-test value (8.462) at p value (.000). The study recommended that nurses should be committed to follow and apply standards of using the personal protective equipment, sharing in training sessions, improve practices through self-learning and training, and establishing future studies to measure nurses practices toward using personal protective equipment at all healthcare settings in Iraq