ASSIGNMENT

Discussion 2

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Institutional Affiliation

Discussion 2

PICOT: Infection Control: Hand Hygiene

(P): Population: hospitalized patients, visitors, healthcare workers

(I): Intervention: Hand hygiene interventions. This will include education as well as training for the existing patients, visitors coupled with the underlying healthcare employees, reminders, audits, team association, and decisive intervention. Also it will include convenient and strategic location of sinks and dispensers which are in good condition and working properly. All dispensers should be filled to encourage the nurses, patients and other professionals to wash their hands always after an activity.

(C): Comparison intervention: no hand washing; supplementary solution; masks

(O): Outcomes: decreased infection

Implementation plan

Methods for Approval

The first fundamental step in executing pan would be reviewing the problem with the existing infection control (IC) supervisor. Moreover, this will enable presenting the plan to the primary contributors that ought to give authorization as well as funding for several HH intervention program (Srigley et al., 2015). After IC is involved, and a presentation to the underlying stakeholders of the organization incorporating a PowerPoint coupled with handouts for the intervention is finished, the information and evidence will be first be presented to the corporate, managers and supervisors such as Chief nursing officer, director of nursing, directors coupled with charge nurses in meeting (Ellingson et al., 2014).

After funding and approval are given, a presentation of the program to the underlying staff is undertaken in a bid to obtain their respective approval and views, which is fundamental to success. Srigley et al., (2015) proved that staff involvement results typically to escalated compliance of HH as communication with staff were massively enhanced, barriers were tackled, and there was an escalation regarding social influence among the existing peers (Ellingson et al., 2014). Moreover, the information would be presented to staff within meeting in the form a PowerPoint as well as handouts in a bid to illustrate program ideas but also permitting them to give feedback to squeeze the program to be efficient.

Description of Problem

Roughly 1.4 million individuals are anguished by an HAI at any specific duration worldwide. Approximately 40% of the infections are deemed to be preventable thus a more efficient way of preventing HAIs is appropriate had washed. Often patients are infected with bacteria from their normal flora as HCW, visitors, as well as patients touching the surfaces and items around them devoid of without performing HH (Srigley et al., 2015).

Present policy and procedure entail the method of hand washing with alcohol disinfectant technique (Ellingson et al., 2014). Nevertheless, the current strategy does not incorporate patients and visitor training of HH.

References

Ellingson, K., Haas, J. P., Aiello, A. E., Kusek, L., Maragakis, L. L., Olmsted, R. N., ... & VanAmringe, M. (2014). Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 35(8), 937-960.

Srigley, J. A., Corace, K., Hargadon, D. P., Yu, D., MacDonald, T., Fabrigar, L., & Garber, G. (2015). Applying psychological frameworks of behaviour change to improve healthcare worker hand hygiene: a systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection, 91(3), 202-210.