Factors Associated with Hand Hygiene Compliance at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 34(11), 1146. doi:10.1086/673465 | Background Information | The stated purpose of the article was to identify factors associated with hand hygiene conformity. As stated by Kowitt (2013) hand hygiene is considered the most important measure in preventing hospital-acquired infections which in 2004 related to about 99,000 deaths, affecting 1.7 million patients with a cost of $6.5 billion to the healthcare system. In the abstract, it is stated that these factors were tracked over four years and involved over 161,526 observations of hand hygiene compliance. This initiative was to see if factors are reliable in increasing compliance rates among all categories of hospital workers.
Abstract Part of my assignment was to interview a nurse who was to have more experience than myself and who I admired for their professionalism and competency. First I thought, I’ve been a nurse for thirty-one years myself so my choices will be somewhat limited. Then I thought I would choose someone who had been in my specialty (cardiology), longer than I, but then again that was a dilemma because I have been in cardiology for twenty-five years. After great thought I chose a nurse who had worked in various hospitals and in different aspects of nursing. I had the opportunity to interview a registered nurse who I have trained in the past when she was new to our department, but now I admire and view as a mentor.
Noncompliance, due to the several steps and time pressure, and variation in the manual method is believed to be at fault. It was decided to trial the use of SwabKit® in early 2010 on the critical care units, medical-surgical units, and step down units. They used the caps on central venous catheters (CVCs), peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), and peripheral intravenous (PIVs). The trial was successful, so they decided to implement use of the kits hospital wide in July 2011. After a two month adjustment period, the hospital began to record data on the use of SwabKit®.
The study was conducted on 46 women (mean age 31 years) recruited from one suburban midwifery practice and two obstetric practices in the northeastern United States. Participants underwent wrist actigraphy at home for 7 consecutive days to measure sleep quality. The Postpartum Depression Screening Scale measured depression severity. Women with postpartum depression experienced poorer sleep quality than women without postpartum depression. Sleep is very important for good health and especially for mothers who just gave birth.
Once again the shortage in nursing will be a problem that affects this area as well. Quality care is the highest priority to NYM. It is apparent that they do everything they can to make quality care #1. Again comes the issue with the nursing shortage. Having such a strain on nursing makes unhappy nurses and it will show in patient care.
It was my first placement on a rehabilitation and palliative care ward. I was working a late so before me and my mentor finished we had to handover the patient information to the nurses just coming on shift. In particular we had been caring for a patient with diabetes, we went through all of the
Ant 111 Assignment 1 (final draft) Participant Observation in Nursing Home Wards for People Suffering from Dementia The research concentrated on how nursing homes develop their care for inhabitants suffering from dementia. In order to study this, I was a known observer at Evenswood nursing home in Kingston Ma for 10 days "Getting in" did not prove to be very problematic, but "getting along" was a lot harder. There was no reason for staff to like a snooping college kid. It was quite clear that the information I received was influenced by the way I was perceived. Moreover, the dementia the inhabitants of the wards suffer from and their reaction to it did not leave me indifferent To get in to the nursing home, I first wrote a letter to the management, explaining what my research was about and asking if I could observe in the nursing home concerned.
With baby boomers reaching retirement age they will need health care services which only increases the demand for nurses. These issues conflict as some nurses are baby boomers
So soon after my graduation, the hospital gave me the choice to decide where I would like to work and I decided to go for neurosurgery. I worked in the Neuro- surgical trauma ICU of a super specialty hospital in Bangalore, India, for almost 4 years. My first 4 years over there made me a very strong. I have seen many lives fade away. I realized how short life is and how thankful we have to be each day of our lives being healthy.
29TH MARCH 2011. I got to work at 9:00 o’clock in the morning when I found out that Mr. X. was still off sick, so I reported to the day centre officer who I advised that I am expecting some information from the Benefits Welfare Rights and I also advised the officer that I needed to contact a service user who is about to go into hospital for her treatment. This was to be a courtesy call meant for relationship building with the service user. On ringing the service user, she advised me that she was truly happy and grateful for my call, but she also made a few complaints and comments to me about the day centre, and I am prepared to use my supervision with my practice educator by presenting these issues to him as soon as he comes back. I also rang the Welfare Rights so as to remind them about the information that I have requested regarding the benefits of people who lie in our client group and they assured me that they will be getting in contact with me regarding all this information as soon as possible.