%0 Journal Article
%T The Microorganisms on Nurses¡¯ and Health Care Workers¡¯ Uniforms in the Intensive Care Units
%A Maha Abu Radwan
%A Muayyad Ahmad
%J Clinical Nursing Research
%@ 1552-3799
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1054773817708934
%X 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%) (¦Ö2 = 24.87, p < .001). None of the participants¡¯ characteristics have correlated significantly with the uniform contamination. High percentages of uniform¡¯s contamination among all those who work in the ICUs were found
%K environmental culture
%K hospital-acquired infection
%K microorganism
%K uniforms
%K nurses
%K intensive care unit
%K physicians
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1054773817708934