Registered nurses' use of universal barrier precautions in the pediatric emergency room.
To assess the frequency of Universal Barrier Precautions (UBPs) use by registered nurses in a pediatric emergency room at a large medical center in the southeastern United States, 10 nurses were observed individually for four-hour periods. Observations were noted using the Universal Precautions Assessment Tool (Gauthier, Turner, Langley, Neil, & Rush, in press). Based on 160 opportunities for UBP use, the nurse compliance rate was 71.9%.
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D016529:Emergency Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016635:Universal Precautions