HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP DENGAN PERILAKU PERAWAT DALAM PEMBUANGAN SAMPAH MEDIS DI RUMAH SAKIT PKU MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA
Abstract: Hospitals in
organizing the efforts of health services will result in waste that could affect
the surrounding environment, so it needs a good waste management efforts. The
success of waste management is influenced by the behavior of nurses in
performing particular medical waste
specially. The waste
management is good
and right by
the nurses is
basically able to distinguish non-medical and medical waste.
Factors knowledge and attitude is one
factor in the formation of nurse behavior disposal of medical waste in
hospitals. This study aims to determine the
knowledge, attitudes and
behavior of nurses,
determine the relationship
of knowledge to determine the relationship of behavior and
attitudes to the behavior of nurses in medical waste disposal in PKU
Muhammadiyah Hospital of Yogyakarta.
Methods: This study was
an observational analytic,
using cross sectional
approach. The research tool was
used quesionnaire. The populationin this study was nurse as many as 155 people
and sample as many as 60 people who were on morning shift. Analysis of the data
using univariate analysis using
frequency distributions and
bivariate analysis using
the Kendall tau correlation test.
Results:There was a relationship between the level of knowledge of the
behavior of caregivers in the dump medical waste with coeffisien correlation of
0.373 with a significant value (ρ) are 0.002 which indicates that the value of
(ρ) are smaller than the value of alpha (α). There was a link attitudes with
behavior of nurses in the disposal of medical waste with coeffisien correlation
is 0.414 with a significant value (ρ) are 0.000 which indicates that the value
of (ρ) are smaller than the value of alpha (α).
Conclusion: There was a relationship between knowledge of thebehavior of
nurses in medical waste disposal in
PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital
of Yogyakarta. There
was a relationship between attitudes to the
behavior of nurses in medical waste disposal in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of
Yogyakarta.
Penulis: Sudiharti, Solikhah
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd120336
