Nurses’ Safety in Caring for Tuberculosis Patients at a Teaching Hospital in South West Nigeria

Table 2

Showing the themes and initial categories derived from the data.

Theme	Categories
Challenges of nurses	Concern for safety when working with patients
	Years working with patients
	Knowledge of MDR-TB
	Perception of MDR-TB
	Ways through which nurses might get exposed to TB at the workplace
	Activities that constitute TB exposure
	Measures for protection from TB at work
	Knowledge of whom the nurses fear might get infected if they contract TB
	Perceived effects of nurses’ fear of the care of patients
	Perceived challenges of the nurses
Roles of nurses in supporting treatment	Giving health talks to patients concerning the effect of noncompliance with the medication regimen
	Follow-up and tracing of patients that fail to come for medications
	Teaching on ways of preventing the spread of TB in their homes and communities
	Methods of supporting treatment of the patients
Strategies to overcome challenges	Perception of whether the hospital is doing enough to prevent the spread of TB
	Perception of if HIV and TB patients should be separated on the wards
	Policies that protect nurses from exposure to TB at work
	Strategies to overcome nurses’ challenges