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Knowledge and uptake of occupational post-exposure prophylaxis amongst nurses caring for people living with HIV.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on nurse outcomes in the private sector of South Africa: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Occupational post-exposure prophylaxis among healthcare workers: a scoping review of factors affecting optimal utilization.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Article
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- The interactive dimensions of encounters in HIV care: From trauma to relational traumatic growth.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Barriers in Implementing the PMTCT in Moretele Sub-District, South Africa: An Exploratory Study.Health services insights · 2022Article
- Healthcare practitioners and students' PEP knowledge, attitude and adherence in Southern Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2022Article
- Support model for nurses caring for people living with HIV and AIDS in the Limpopo province, South Africa.Curationis · 2021Article
- Standard precautions for preventing Tuberculosis and HIV: Compliance of Eswatini university student nurses.PloS one · 2021Article
- Emotional well-being and work engagement of nurses who moonlight (dual employment) in private hospitals.International journal of nursing practice · 2020Article
- Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids and use of human immunodeficiency virus post-exposure prophylaxis amongst nurses in a Gauteng province hospital.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2020Article
- Prevalence of occupational exposure to HIV and utilization of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis among health staff at Bule Hora General Hospital, Bule Hora, Ethiopia.The Pan African medical journal · 2020Article
- Bachelor of Nursing students' HIV and AIDS knowledge in KwaZulu-Natal province: An evaluation study.Curationis · 2019Article
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- Experience of nursing students regarding clinical support in the management of TB and HIV patients in a primary healthcare setting: a phenomenological study.The Pan African medical journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundNurses caring for people living with HIV (PLWH) are at higher risk of exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by needle sticks, cuts, getting body fluids in their eyes or mouth and skin when bruised or affected by dermatitis.
objectivesTo determine knowledge, insight and uptake of occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (OPEP) amongst nurses caring for PLWH.
methodA cross-sectional descriptive design was used in this study. Stratified random sampling was used to sample 240 nurses. The study was conducted in a regional hospital in Limpopo province. Both parametric and non-parametric statistics were employed to analyse data.
resultsA total of 233 nurses participated in the study. Sixty per cent (n = 138) of all nurses had a situation at work when they thought that they were infected by HIV and 100 (43%) nurses had experienced the situation once or more in the past 12 month. Approximately 40% did not know what PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) is, and 22% did not know or were not sure if it was available in the hospital. Only few participants (n = 68, 29%) had sought PEP and most (n = 37, 54%) of them did not receive PEP when they needed it. There was a significant association between the knowledge and availability of PEP (r = 0.622).
conclusionThe study recommend an urgent need for policy makers in the health sector to put in place policies, guidelines and programmes that will rapidly scale up PEP services in health care settings, so that preventable occupationally acquired HIV infection can be minimised amongst nurses.
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