MINISTRY OF RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION SYIAH KUALA UNIVERSITY NURSING FACULTY MINI THESIS July 20th 2015 xiv + VI Chapters + 86 pages + 16 tables + 2 schema + 29 Appendixes MORI WIDIA ULAN SARI 1207101020121 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION AMONG NURSES’ SKILL IN NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IN dr. ZAINOEL ABIDIN GENERAL HOSPITAL BANDA ACEH 2016 ABSTRACT Nosocomial infection is categorized as the infection related to the health services provision in health care facilities. It is obtained during patients are taken care in hospital. cases in the world , there are 1.4 million people in Indonesia from the number of it in 10 educational public hospitals obtained the number of it is quite high, namely 6-16% with the average of 9.8%. Therefore, to reduce nosocomial infection, it is essential for nurses have knowledge on its prevention. The purpose of the research was to identify difference between knowledge and perception of nurses’ skills, and the prevention of nosocomial infections in Hospital dr. Zainoel Abidin Banda Aceh. The type of the research was a comparative study with cross sectional approach. The population was nurses in female internal ward (Mamplam1) and male internal ward (Mamplam2) in dr. Zainoel Abidin General Hospitas Banda Aceh. The sampling technique was the purposive sampling with the number of sample of 40 respondents consisting of 20 people from female internal ward (Mamplam1), and 20 people from male internal ward (Mamplam2). Data collecod used 2 set of questionnaires in multiple choises consisting of 30 questions and Likert scale consisting of 20 statements. The method of data analysis used Mann Whitney U test. The result of the research showed that p-value = 0.024 for knowledge and p-value = 0.114 for the perception skills (α = 0.05), so it be concluded that there was difference between the nurses’ knowledge, and the prevention of nosocomial infection, and there was no difference between the perception of nurses’ skills, and the prevention of nosocomial infection. It was recommended for nurses in male internal ward (Mamplam2) in dr. Zainoel Abidin General Hospitas Banda Aceh in order to be able to improve their knowledge and skills on the prevention of nosocomial infection. Keywords : Knowledge, Perception Skills, The Prevention of Nosocomial Infections Reading Lists : 30 textbooks, 15 journal articles, 5 theses