Abstract:
Nurses are at risk of being contaminated with disease if during interactions
with patients they do not pay attention to universal precautions by using Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) such as gloves, masks, glasses, gowns. The purpose
of this literature review is to find out whether there is a relationship between the
supervision of the head of the room and the compliance of nurses in using PPE.
The method of this research uses a literature review system. Search through
electronic media databases Google Scholar. The search keywords used were
supervision, PPE, and nurse compliance. Data analysis was carried out according
to the prism. The population was all nurses working in inpatient rooms and the
samples used were some or all nurses working in inpatient rooms. The articles
used in this study were 6 articles which showed that there was a relationship
between the supervision of the head of the room and compliance in using PPE.
The conclusion of this study is that there is a relationship between the supervision
of the head of the room and the compliance of nurses in using personal protective
equipment (PPE). The more often the head of the rrom supervises, the level of
nurse compliance also increases.
