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TB or not TB: impact of an interactive educational tuberculosis (TB) module on occupational health professionals (OHP)
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TB or not TB: impact of an interactive educational tuberculosis (TB) module on occupational health professionals (OHP)
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Marleni
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Marleni Estrella
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Manchester
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Jeannette
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Jeannette Manchester
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Rutgers University
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School of Nursing - RBHS
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theses
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ETD doctoral
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English
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Purpose of Project:
Tuberculosis (TB), both curable and preventable, remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world (CDC, 2019). Occupational health professionals (OHP) can play a pivotal role in TB eradication because they work with one of the highest-risk groups for Latent Tuberculosis Infection and TB, healthcare workers (HCW), who take care of a high-risk patient or have unguarded exposure to a patient with TB before the proper precautions have been initiated (Stewart & Tsang, 2016). In May 2019, the CDC published an updated TB guideline for healthcare personnel. The purpose of this project is to ensure OHP are utilizing the most current TB clinical guidelines to identify, screen accurately, and treat employees at the highest risk of developing active TB disease.
Methodology:
An interactive TB educational module to measure: 1) TB knowledge, 2) intent to change practice, 3) identification of barriers and 4) implementation of recommendations.
Results:
Due to the low response rate (3%), statistical analysis of data could not be conducted. Descriptive analysis revealed: 1) 31% increase in TB knowledge, 2) 100% of participants were neutral in their intention to implement these new guidelines and strongly agreed on the use and benefit to do so, and 3) 50% did not feel confident in implementing the guidelines due to systemic barriers.
Implications for Practice:
An interactive educational module can be useful in disseminating new clinical guidelines, but further studies need to be conducted to address barriers in implementing them into practice.
Tuberculosis (TB), both curable and preventable, remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world (CDC, 2019). Occupational health professionals (OHP) can play a pivotal role in TB eradication because they work with one of the highest-risk groups for Latent Tuberculosis Infection and TB, healthcare workers (HCW), who take care of a high-risk patient or have unguarded exposure to a patient with TB before the proper precautions have been initiated (Stewart & Tsang, 2016). In May 2019, the CDC published an updated TB guideline for healthcare personnel. The purpose of this project is to ensure OHP are utilizing the most current TB clinical guidelines to identify, screen accurately, and treat employees at the highest risk of developing active TB disease.
Methodology:
An interactive TB educational module to measure: 1) TB knowledge, 2) intent to change practice, 3) identification of barriers and 4) implementation of recommendations.
Results:
Due to the low response rate (3%), statistical analysis of data could not be conducted. Descriptive analysis revealed: 1) 31% increase in TB knowledge, 2) 100% of participants were neutral in their intention to implement these new guidelines and strongly agreed on the use and benefit to do so, and 3) 50% did not feel confident in implementing the guidelines due to systemic barriers.
Implications for Practice:
An interactive educational module can be useful in disseminating new clinical guidelines, but further studies need to be conducted to address barriers in implementing them into practice.
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Tuberculosis
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Post-Master's DNP Leadership
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Includes bibliographical references
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