The Effect of Educational Program based on the Kirkpatrick Model on Observing the Precautions of Infection Control Standard in Nursing Students

The recent emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases have made the knowledge and practice of standard infection control precautions in developing countries more important than ever. However, schools of nursing in Jordan do not have a prescribed curriculum in Standard Precautions.

This was a two-group before-after quasi-experimental design which all final year students were selected by census. Data collection tools include demographic questionnaire and Kirk Patrick evaluation model. For the intervention group, an educational program was implemented based on the Kirk Patrick model and for the control group, an educational booklet was given to the students. Its effectiveness was evaluated in four levels of Kirk Patrick model. The amount of learning was assessed using a researcher-made test before and after the test. To evaluate the performance, an observational checklist was used which was invisibly checked by the researcher on different days before and one month after the intervention and the checklist was completed and determine the level 4, exposure to needle stick, blood and body fluids, the exposure questionnaire was distributed among studied subjects, and they were asked to report their incidents of exposure before and during the next 1 months. For data analysis, we used descriptive statistics, a chi-square test, a paired t-test and the independent samples t-test.

The findings of this study show that the average learning score and performance of nursing students increased significantly after the training program and exposed to needle stick injury and blood and body fluids was reduced after intervention.

The results indicate the effectiveness of the course held for nursing students and it seems that Kirk Patrick model can be a suitable way to evaluate the effectiveness of health education.