As the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) (2012) states the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards set the benchmark for safety and quality of health care. Although NSQHS standards are the minimum levels of safety and quality of service, they are aimed at enhancing the safety and quality of health care services in Australia (ACSQHC, 2012: 3).
This report will look into NSQHS Standard 3 Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated infections, sub-criteria 3.5 Developing, implementing and auditing a hand hygiene program consistent with the current national hand hygiene initiative (ACSQHC 2012: 30) in the context of WHO’s 5 hand hygiene moments.
At present the ACSQHC’s aligned national …show more content…
And lastly, from the micro level: Front line staff, including nurses, doctors, support staff, and service users including patients and their family members. PEST Analysis:
Political influences
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) considers bettering hand hygiene as a nationwide urgency. Furthermore, the World Health Organisation (WHO) (2015) declares Hand hygiene as a quality gauge of safe health care systems. As evidenced in the National Hand Hygiene project, the NSQHS standard 3 hand hygiene has become a significant quality initiative for Australian hospitals.
Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) regularly audits hospitals for their hand hygiene compliance and revises national data accordingly. Table 2 below indicates the overall hand hygiene compliance rate of 84.1% in 940 Australian hospitals, both the public and private, in June 2016 (HHA, 2016). For ACSQHC accreditation, hospitals need to sustain the hand hygiene compliance rate of 70 per cent (ACSQHC,
This report will look into NSQHS Standard 3 Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated infections, sub-criteria 3.5 Developing, implementing and auditing a hand hygiene program consistent with the current national hand hygiene initiative (ACSQHC 2012: 30) in the context of WHO’s 5 hand hygiene moments.
At present the ACSQHC’s aligned national …show more content…
And lastly, from the micro level: Front line staff, including nurses, doctors, support staff, and service users including patients and their family members. PEST Analysis:
Political influences
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) considers bettering hand hygiene as a nationwide urgency. Furthermore, the World Health Organisation (WHO) (2015) declares Hand hygiene as a quality gauge of safe health care systems. As evidenced in the National Hand Hygiene project, the NSQHS standard 3 hand hygiene has become a significant quality initiative for Australian hospitals.
Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) regularly audits hospitals for their hand hygiene compliance and revises national data accordingly. Table 2 below indicates the overall hand hygiene compliance rate of 84.1% in 940 Australian hospitals, both the public and private, in June 2016 (HHA, 2016). For ACSQHC accreditation, hospitals need to sustain the hand hygiene compliance rate of 70 per cent (ACSQHC,