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Show Cleaning of Cell Phones in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Karl Wood, MSr NNP-BC, DNP student Catl1erine Schultz1 DNP1 FNP-BCJ Dale Gerstr11ann, MD, Sandy EwelL MBA, BSN & Heather Hutchinson, BS1 Microbiology fv\T,ASCP !Key Fi.nd~ngs: Education o n oell phone cleaning d id no t improve freque ncy o f cleaning r but reduced b ac te rfal cell counts □ind pathogenic bacteria. Cl e□ini g p o tocdl an d educ□rtion improved the num be r of cell pho nes clean ed prior to e nhy int o the INIICU . It □ilso decreased ' he bact,e ri'a l loa d and pathogen e~osu e from cell phones Resul1 ls Background "./1. "nf,e c ./1." N o:sooom .I □ I,. o r h· osp1 1□ I □i c qu "1 re di, 1 11ems r,e mai• n a pro b lem in Neon□ital Inte nsive C are- U i s (IN CU s). Pre-Intervention Training C ell p ho nes c on be a sourc e of b acteri al ond viral c onta mlna tlo n [Brady. v ~rra 1, Damcrni & Gr b . X:09} , Th ere was no imp ovemen t' posit-survey in t he numb er of resp ondents who c leaned t heir c el I ph1one do my. Provi der5 and fa m ilies carry cell phones into hosp itcil units. Cu e 10% of people e n tering1the NIC U had never cleane d their cell phonies o n the pre-survey ,a nd 2% on the postsUNey. 100% of cell phones swabbed had b□ic terlall con taminat ion prior to interven t i'on ,a nd 67% had bacte rial co nt □mihation p0-st.Jinterve ntro n 1[p=0 .O42J. INio pa ho-g en s wer,e recovere d · os -intervention {p=0.O28 J. tp a ctilces of ha ndwaish 1n g and ,gel sa n ifu.ers do not pro er1y cle a · d ig ita I devices (Becks.1a , Cle ma n. Cassis-Ghava · 'i & Kamit su ka 201 3: R sssu1t o a t a I, 20 17] _ Methods Non-Pathogenic 37% o f t□mi lies and visil ors h □id c leaned their cell pho ne o n ,e nhy pr,e-surve-y and 83% post-survey [p<0.00] ) . Pathogenic 24 bed . commun1ty-ba_sed,. L,e vel 3 NICU Iooa ted in ·O rem,. I.Jtah. A Fisher Exact Tes or Mann-Whitney ll test was con ducted to com pa re pre to post interv.e ntion surveys a nd swab s. A surv,e y ,a sssessin-g cle,aning pr□ic tioes ,. atti'tudes □ind barri'ers was deve,loped ,a nd administiered to staf f, family and \liisitors. \!Vho oarried cell phones i' nt o the INIOU. his survey wos administ ered p rior t o thee d uc□rtional in tervention and 2 weeks after the intervenf'ion w□ts ,administered t o □ II st□ ' f. Conclusion An efFecti ve c leaning procedure was dleve loped usl ng antilbacteri □I wipes and UV-C light·. Im proved rates of fa mi r.; an v·isitors cleaning of ce II p ho nes upon entry to the NICU. IE duoati'on materi□ils □ind cle·□ ning procedure were· develo ped and 'i mplem,e nte d o □dd re-ss knowledg e defec'its and b arriers iden tified by the survey. Swabs o f cell p ones were o b taine d p rior t o weeks after complet'i on of the eduoation□1 int erv,e ntion. U ~v~tv~IT~ □ind Cell phone deani11g hequ6 ncy was not fmprove d by t he educatio no I 1nterve nt io n. 2 Bacterial Isolates on Cell Phones There was a slgnffican t- re-due ion in the bacte rial loa d and number of p a t hog e ·s. COILLEGE OF NUIR.SING |
