DOI: 10.5176/2345-718X_1.1.24
Authors: Alla Ba Mohammed and Sharifah Mohidin
Abstract:
Healthcare workers use their hands to treat, and provide care to those in need, but sometimes those hands cause serious infections. Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are the fifth leading cause of death among hospitalized patients, which emphasizes the importance of effective preventative implementations. Evidence shows that hand hygiene is the best method to prevent HAIs. This project utilizes an action method by uses a multi-stage process starting from combining the literature review themes, then identifying the ideal recommendations, then to filter the most appropriate recommendations and implement into King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH).
The literature review discusses on work overload, role modeling, internal motivation and culture that influence compliance rates for health care workers (HCWs) and identifies the ideal solutions and recommendations in order to increase the compliance rates, quality of care, patients’ safety and the organization as a whole. These recommendations were utilized in implementing this project, which includes reminder programs by visiting all departments in KAUH, innovation of a code among HCWs, and carrying out an awareness campaign. Finally, a page was created on Facebook to ensure that continuous awareness is delivered and friendly reminders are spread constantly. In conclusion, using a friendly reminder project was found to be effective in helping to increase the hand hygiene compliance rate among HCWs.
Keywords: hand hygiene, healthcare associated infection, educational awareness, barriers, compliance rates
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