Aresearch paper submitted to the department of dentistry, spr, in partial fulfillment of The requirements of degree of doctor of dental medicine (dmd)

Abstract

Background:- Hospital acquired infections often have serious consequences for the individual or the hospital community at large. However nosocomial infection can be prevented and controlled among staff and patient through careful and systematic attention to infection control guidelines and procedures. Control of communicable disease has been achieved in the developed countries througheducation, regulations, and public health measures such as health care infection control and safety (IC&S). Objective:- to assesses basic infection control practice in Jimma University specialized Hospital . Methods:- Across sectional study with convenient sampling technique was conducted to achieve the goal of the study. self administer questioners was distributed for health care workers (Nurses, Doctors, health officers , anesthesia & midwifery) about general practice of infection control in Jimma University Specialized hospital. Results and discussion:- the data was cleaned and analyzed manually and using on line contingency table, the association was determined, result was displayed using tables. From the table most of the respondents were good on some infection control mechanism , while, poor on some other infection control mechanism. Conclusion& recommendation:- the study shows that although most of the health care workers under studied recognized the importance of cross infection control theoretically, they have not changed it into practice accordingly, for such problem ,it is better for Jimma university specialized Hospital administrators to give progressive seminars both theoretically and practically on infection control practice for all health care workers in the Hospital and supervising them accordingly