To analyze the risk factors of nosocomial infection in the pediatric ward in a hospital and nursing care for relevant prevention and control.

Totally 1 460 pediatric inpatients admitted in Taizhou First People's Hospital from June 2017 to January 2019 were retrospectively analyzed and divided into the infection group and the control group according to the existence of infection. The children's medical records were organized; the risk factors of nosocomial infection in pediatric inpatients were analyzed; and relevant nursing measures were summarized.

Nosocomial infection was found in 89 out of the 1 460 children; most children were found with respiratory tract infection and digestive canal infection in the infected children, which accounted for 36 cases (40.4%) and 23 cases (25.8%) , respectively; the proportion of children aged <3 years, hospitalized for >10 days, with malnutrition, invasive operation, receiving antibiotics for >10 days, or receiving immunosuppressors or unqualified sterile operation in the infection group was higher than that in the control group, and there was statistically significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05) . Logistic regression analysis revealed that nosocomial infection in pediatric inpatients was associated with length of hospital >10 days, invasive operation, use of antibiotics for >10 days, use of immunosuppressors and unqualified sterile operation.

Pediatric inpatients are prone to nosocomial infection, and the type of infection is mainly respiratory tract infection and digestive canal infection. Relevant nursing measures should be taken based on the factors of infection in order to reduce the incidence rate of nosocomial infection in children.

Nursing care; Pediatrics; Hospitalization; Nosocomial infection; Risk factor