Awareness about nosocomial infections amongnurses in omdurman teaching Hospital October 2017

Physicians, nurses and health care workers are exposed to hospitals for long duration which increases their risk of acquiring infections. Infection control practices are geared towards reduction of occurrence and transmission of infectious diseases. Hundreds of millions of patients are affected b y Hospital- acquired infection(HAI). Nurses have a critical role to play in prevention measures and infection control and they should have the opportunity for continuous professional development. this descriptive study done to assess knowledge, attitudes and practice of nurses regard HAI,82 nurses enrolled in the study sample selected randomly. structured questionnaire was given to each respondent. Data was collected over a period of three months from july to october 2017.As results shows that There was excellent results of knowledge regard HAI mean score is 91.5%,excellent results of attitudes mean64.6% and 91.5% regard practice.there is significant relation between knowledge ,attitudes and practice with demographic data. Thus it was concluded that the knowledge,attitudes and practice about nosocomial infection was excellent but need further educational training to keep updating their knowledge.