EFFECTIVENESS OF MONITORING HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES BY INFECTION CONTROL NURSES (ICNS) IN A SELECTED TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN BANGALORE.

Dr. Narendranath V, Dr. Sarala K S

Abstract


Hand hygiene is important aspect for any health care worker who is involved in patient care directly or indirectly. Hand hygiene has to be performed at a right time, right place and right method and the hand hygiene is the important factor in reducing hospital acquired infections. Nurses play a critical role in reducing the hospital acquired infections for all category of patients. So this study aims in assessing the intervention of infection control nurses in monitoring and audit of hand hygiene. Methods: Observational study was conducted in all the areas of the hospital wards , Intensive care units . The participants were nurses working in the hospitals chosen based on random sampling method . A researcher prepared questionnaire that investigated that the participants were following all the steps of hand hygiene recommended by WHO . Analysis was done using simple statistical methods to find out the percentage of compliance rate . Results: Most of nursing participants before the intervention of ICNs they were following steps but not all the steps as recommended by WHO, once the intervention was done and monitored on regular basis there was an improvement and also reduction of Hospital Acquired Infection.


Keywords


Infection Control Nurses, Hand hygiene, Compliance, Audit , Hospital Acquired Infections , WHO 5 moments of hand wash

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