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The Microorganisms on Nurses’ and Health Care Workers’ Uniforms in the Intensive Care Units

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  • Maha Abu Radwan
  • Muayyad Ahmad

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The objective of this study was to identify the types of microorganisms present on uniforms of nurses, physicians, respiratory therapist, students, and housekeepers in intensive care units (ICUs). A convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants ( N = 115) who work at military hospital in Jordan. Environmental cultures ( N = 305) were taken from the participants who were nurses, physicians, students, respiratory therapists, and housekeepers. The number of participating nurses was 58 (50.43%). There were 24 types of microorganisms found on the participants’ uniforms. Staphylococcus epidermidis was found 59 times (61.3%) on the three areas of uniform culture. High level of contamination was found among all the participants, and it was the highest in physicians (85%) followed by nurse (79.3%) (χ 2 = 24.87, p

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  • Maha Abu Radwan & Muayyad Ahmad, 2019. "The Microorganisms on Nurses’ and Health Care Workers’ Uniforms in the Intensive Care Units," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 28(1), pages 94-106, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:28:y:2019:i:1:p:94-106
    DOI: 10.1177/1054773817708934
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