Abstract
The infection control link-nurses act as a link between their own work-place and the infection control team in the hospital. To motivate the infection control link-nurses in our hospital, we had introduced four working groups. After belong to the one of four working groups, the link-nurses worked the part of the infection control work that the infection control team had been done. We have done an awareness survey regarding the role of link-nurse before and one year after the introduction of working group system.
Although only 6 out of 11 link-nurses had the concern for an infection control before becoming the infection control link-nurses, the majority of the link-nurses replied the change of consciousness for the infection control. Regarding the working groups, the link-nurses gave the good evaluation in spite of additional burdens in the work-place. In addition, 10 out of 11 link-nurses replied an additional change of consciousness for infection control after the practical works of infection control by the introduction of working groups. Thus, we confirmed the proof of an insufficient awareness of link-nurses just become a link-nurse in this study.
