The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the development of educational programs which
improve the nurses’ infection control performance by investigating the knowledge, awareness and
performance of infection control and analyzing the correlation among nurses in long-term care hospital after
accreditation program. The subjects of the study were working for the long-term care hospitals located in B
city. The data collection period was from June 1, 2016 to July 30, 2016. A total of 160 questionnaires
were distributed and 135 questionnaires were collected. 109 questionnaires were used for data analysis,
except for 26 unreliable response questionnaires. The descriptive statistics were conducted using the SPSS
22.0 statistical program. The surgical asepsis marked the highest point with 0.96, while the staff infection
control marked 0.1. The score of awareness of infection control marked 4.71 out of 5 points. The
performance score of infection control was 4.60 out of 5 points. There was a statistically significant
difference in positions(F=3.841, p=.025) of the knowledge of infection control according to general
characteristics. The knowledge of infection control related to infection-control characteristics shows
statistically significant difference according to the awareness(t=-2.60, p=0.22) of the guidelines. There was a
statistically significant difference in the awareness according to infection control which is regarded as the
most important and the ease of use of protective equipment(F=3.88, p=.024). There was a statistically
significant difference in the level of infection control performance in the recognition of infection control
guidelines(t=-2.021, p=.046). There is a statistically significant positive correlation between the awareness
and performance of infection control, the higher the awareness, the higher the performance(r=.465, p<001).
However, knowledge of infection control did not have a significant correlation with awareness and
performance. Therefore, specific education plans and systems should be sought to improve awareness, the
most influential factor in infection control performance, as this study shows. In addition, it shows that there
is no correlation between infection control knowledge and performance. Therefore, it is suggested to
develop standardized infection control knowledge measurement tool for long-term care hospital nurses.