The Effectiveness of Innovation: Sputum Culture Collection Device

Abstract

Nursing care of respiratory tract Infectious patients, the one thing very important is to follow sputum culturing to control the infection indicated to nursing quality assurance standard and the expenditures takes high cost for the apparatus using in the hospital. Thus, the author team has invented a new sputum collecting apparatus to use and promote the hospital reduce the cost. To study the effectiveness of innovation: sputum culture collection device Material and method:    Cross sectional analytical study was performed in 2 groups of population; provider and user the provider consisted of 4 nurse-aids. The user group comprised 25 ICU nurses .after 1 year of implementation, the subjects evaluated their satisfaction and compared the new invention cost to the old one. The data analyzed by percentile test. In the provider group, most of them shared opinions, it was very simply to prepare the new invention, not consumed time and they showed the most satisfaction, and finally reduced the cost gave benefit to the hospital. In the user group, the most satisfaction was performed and the expenditures comparing result was reduced 27,235 -38,350 baht a year.The sputum collecting apparatus, new invention is suitable to use as an apparatus for sputum culture. After evaluation the provider and the user opinions were performed the most satisfaction and reduced the cost of expenditures so it is proper to use.