Author(s)

Li He¹, Chaomei Huang^1*, Xiaoqin Jia¹, Jianning Xie¹, Hui Yang²

¹Department of Neonatology, Foshan Women and Children’s Hospital, Foshan, China.
²Shunde iBorn Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Foshan, China.

Background: At present, there is no domestic research on the relationship between nurse staffing and hospital infection in very low birth weight infants. In this paper, we will explore the relationship between nurses of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and nosocomial infections. Methods: The clinical data of 280 very low birth weight infants born in our hospital from January 2010 to January 2020 were collected, and the chi-square test and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to study the nursing staff of each very low birth weight infant who was admitted to the NICU The relationship between the number of infections and hospital infections. Results: On average, each nurse needs to care for 4.3 very low birth weight infants (lowest to highest: 2.50 - 8.42). In the univariate analysis, the higher the incidence of urinary tract infection (P < 0.05), the multivariate logistic regression analysis of neonatal nosocomial infection showed that nurse staffing was significantly related to the incidence of urinary tract infection (OR = 1.78; 95% confidence interval, 1.17 - 2.35, P < 0.05). However, there was no significant correlation between nurse staffing and bloodstream infection (OR = 0.91; 95% confidence interval, 0.74 - 1.06, P > 0.05) or Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) infection (OR = 1.17; 95% confidence interval, 0.94 - 1.47, P > 0.05). Conclusion: Our research shows that in the neonatal intensive care unit, the reasonable deployment of nursing staff is an important factor in preventing urinary tract infections in very low birth weight infants. It is important for improving the survival rate of very low birth weight infants and reducing the occurrence of sequelae.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Nursing Staff, Urinary Tract Infection, Very Low Birth Weight Infants

He, L. , Huang, C. , Jia, X. , Xie, J. and Yang, H. (2020) Study on the Relationship between Nursing Staffing and Nosocomial Infection in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 8, 179-186. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2020.811016.