PENGARUH EDUKASI TENTANG PENGGUNAAN JARUM SUNTIK TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN PARAMEDIS DI PUSKESMAS NON RAWAT INAP GEDONGTENGEN DAN KOTAGEDE I
Abstract
Universal precautions are the action of infection control conduted
by health care practitioner to reduce the risk of infection spreading and based on
the principle that blood and body fluid have the potency to transmit disease, not
only from the patient, but also from the healthcare practitioner. Healthcare
practitioners in public health care are obliged to preserve the safety of themselves,
the ptients, and they need to have good knowledge. Intervention in form of
education is necessary to improve the knowledge of the helathcare practitioner as
an effort to prevent infection and self safety of healthcare practitioner.
Method: This research is a quantitative research using experimental quasy non
randomized research design with one grup pretest-posttest design with
controlgroup. Sampling technique using probability sampling with purposive
sampling. The are 30 healthcare practitioner as samples. Education is given for 30
minutes. Instruments of this research is a questionnaire with the content of
education materials.
Result: This study shows the calculation of P-value= 0.008 < 0.05 indicates that
there is a significant increase of knowledge of healthcare practitioner after given
the intervention in form of education about the use of syringe toward the
knowledge of healthcare practitioner in Gedongtengen and Kotagede I Non
Hospitalization Health Care.
Conclusion and suggestion: education about the use of syringe has the effect
toward the knowledge of healthcare practitioner in Gedongtengen and Kotagede I
Non Hospitalization Health Care. There is the necessity to keep on sustainably
providing education as the effort to prevent infection and for self safety during
service.