Hand Hygiene Compliance
Degie Gelaw
American Sentinel University
Hand Hygiene Compliance
In the wake of the ever growing drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infection (HAI), hand hygiene continues to be the most important infection prevention measure to date. Further, the correlation between proper hand hygiene and infection prevention has long been associated with optimal patient outcome. According to the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), health care providers perform hand hygiene less than 50 % of the times they should (2016). As a result, one in 25 hospitalized patients acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI) on any given day (CDC, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to discuss a hand …show more content…
Despite clear policies, procedures and available educational resources being in place, the current hand hygiene compliance goal of achieving 100 % remains out of reach. In the year 2014, the facility this writer is employed in took a swift initiative of 100% compliance with a 200% accountability slogan and began an extensive education undertaking. However, a couple of years into the ambitious desire, the hand hygiene compliance remains under 60 % in the third quarter of 2016 (Inova, 2016).
Impact on Nursing Care and/or Patient Outcome The most devastating impact associated with hand hygiene non-compliance is the negative patient outcome such as extended hospital length of stay, increased morbidity, and mortality. In the US, HAIs are estimated to cause 90,000 patient deaths each year and the cost to treat them is estimated between $ 28.4 and $ 33.8 billion (Mathur, 2011). The nurses’ and other health care providers ill guided perception of performing proper hand hygiene while actual compliance is extremely low remains to impact the quality of patient care and outcome.
Potential Solutions to the
Degie Gelaw
American Sentinel University
Hand Hygiene Compliance
In the wake of the ever growing drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infection (HAI), hand hygiene continues to be the most important infection prevention measure to date. Further, the correlation between proper hand hygiene and infection prevention has long been associated with optimal patient outcome. According to the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), health care providers perform hand hygiene less than 50 % of the times they should (2016). As a result, one in 25 hospitalized patients acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI) on any given day (CDC, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to discuss a hand …show more content…
Despite clear policies, procedures and available educational resources being in place, the current hand hygiene compliance goal of achieving 100 % remains out of reach. In the year 2014, the facility this writer is employed in took a swift initiative of 100% compliance with a 200% accountability slogan and began an extensive education undertaking. However, a couple of years into the ambitious desire, the hand hygiene compliance remains under 60 % in the third quarter of 2016 (Inova, 2016).
Impact on Nursing Care and/or Patient Outcome The most devastating impact associated with hand hygiene non-compliance is the negative patient outcome such as extended hospital length of stay, increased morbidity, and mortality. In the US, HAIs are estimated to cause 90,000 patient deaths each year and the cost to treat them is estimated between $ 28.4 and $ 33.8 billion (Mathur, 2011). The nurses’ and other health care providers ill guided perception of performing proper hand hygiene while actual compliance is extremely low remains to impact the quality of patient care and outcome.
Potential Solutions to the