Effects of Green model on preventing blood-induced occupational exposure in operating room nurses

Objective To explore the effects of Green model on the prevention of blood-induced occupational exposure in the nurses of the operating room. Methods In March 2016, a total of 124 operating room nurses in He'nan Provincial People's Hospital were selected as the research objects by cluster purposive sampling method and investigated with a self-designed questionnaire. The content of the questionnaire included 4 aspects: general information, the risk factors of blood-induced occupational exposure in nurses, the cognition of nurses about blood-induced occupational exposure in operating room, and the prevention protection of blood-induced occupational exposure. The problems of tendency factors, contributing factors and strengthening factors were analyzed and interfered under the theoretical frame of Green model. The total 124 nurses were reinvestigated in March 2017 to compare the nurses' protection of blood-induced occupational exposure in operating room. Results After the intervention of Green model, the score of nurses' protection of blood-induced professional exposure increased from (30.56±1.24) to (40.24±1.22) , and the score of the cognition increased from (4.01±0.91) to (8.71±1.31) . The differences of the scores were statistically significant (P<0.05) . Conclusions The application of the Green model in the protection of blood-induced professional exposure can effectively improve the cognition of protection and reduce the rate of blood-induced occupational exposure in operating room. Key words: Occupational exposure; Cognition; Protection; Operating rooms; Nurses; Blood-induced; Green model