Multifaceted Interventions Based on Education and Recognition to Enhance Nurses' Compliance With Standard Precautions: A Quasi‐Experimental Design

This study examines the effect of multifaceted interventions based on education (1) and recognition (2) of compliance with standard precautions (SPs). A quasi-experimental research design with a one-group pre-test and post-test was used. The purposive sample included 71 nurses working in different specialty units at a large hospital in Turkey. The researchers developed multifaceted interventions informed by existing literature, data from the hospital, and insights from frontline experts, including nurses, ward managers, infection control officers, and health and safety officers. Initially, modifications were implemented in the physical environment of the clinics, and material deficiencies were addressed. In the subsequent phase, nurses engaged in an educational session focused on SPs. The nurses completed the Compliance with Standard Precaution Scale (CSPS) three times, including baseline (before the intervention, T0), third month after the intervention (T1), and sixth month after the intervention (T2). Nurses' median compliance with SPs was significantly higher at T2 (15.8 ± 3.42) than at T0 (13.7 ± 3.16, p < 0.05). The multifaceted interventions comprising structured education and recognition enhanced the compliance with SPs of clinical nurses.