The individual environmental and organizational factors that influence nurses use of facial protection to prevent occupational transmission of communicable respiratory illness in acute care hospitals

摘要

Communicable respiratory illness is an important cause of morbidity among nurses. One of the key reasons for occupational transmission of this illness is the failure to implement appropriate barrier precautions, particularly facial protection. The objectives of this study were to describe the factors that influence nurses' decisions to use facial protection and to determine their relative importance in predicting compliance.