Download or read book WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Guidelines and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are designed to offer health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual framework and practical tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While ensuring consistency with the Guidelines recommendations, individual adaptation according to local regulations, settings, needs, and resources is desirable. This extensive review includes in one document sufficient technical information to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The document comprises six parts.
Download or read book Publication Catalog of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare written by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workers Health Series written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publication Catalog of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare written by United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publication Catalog of the U S Department of Health and Human Services written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services and published by . This book was released on with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book Using Simple Visual Cues to Increase Hand Hygiene Compliance written by Donna Nyack and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare-associated infections are a world-wide healthcare crisis afflicting countless people around the globe. In the United States alone, nosocomial infections kill a staggering number of patients and sicken countless others (Smith, Lokhurst, 2009). Naturally, this generates a great deal of concern in many health care settings and is a primary concern to those in the medical community, especially since the safety of patients is being compromised. While not all hospital-acquired infections can be prevented, the vast majority can. The startling reality is that studies have proven most of the infections acquired in the hospital setting are transmitted from patient to patient via the hands of healthcare workers (Smith, Lokhurst, 2009). Hand sanitization, has long been deemed a first-line of protection in the prevention of these infections. Of equal significance, has been the struggle for compliance with hand hygiene procedures that are vital to the safety of patients in the hospital. According to the results of a European hospital study, nurses' practice with hand hygiene is weak, and went on to reiterate, the compliance level of the staff is unacceptable (Malliarou, Sarafis, Zyga, Constantinidis, 2013). As evidence suggests, there is an urgent need to undertake robust methodologies in order to effectively increase hygiene compliance to safeguard patients. This written proposal presents the following; in the emergency department (ED), will the use of visual cues, in comparison to only standard education, actually increase hand hygiene compliance for the ED staff, within 6 months? There are many reasons why staff fail to clean their hands consistently and one identified barrier happens to be ineffective or insufficient education (Joint Commission, 2010). Standard education has been utilized in many hospitals and yet, it is well published that hand hygiene compliance rates remain inadequate. It is proposed that visual cues are needed to encourage health care workers to disinfect their hands in an effort to increase hand hygiene compliance. According to a 2014 study, the absence or presence of reminders of hand washing in public restrooms and a university campus were studied to determine if hand washing compliance was affected, and the results were a resounding, yes! The results confirmed, creating obvious environments and layouts that provide visual cues and convenience for workers has been associated with increased hand washing rates (Ford, Boyer, Menachemi, Huerta, 2014). In order to employ this proposal, hospital leadership teams will be provided with an implementation plan consisting of a step by step proposition of recommended interventions such as displaying visual cues at the points of patient care. Ongoing evaluations will be conducted throughout each phase to ascertain effectiveness and identify areas of improvement. Plans will be disseminated to identified stakeholders to encourage support and ongoing involvement.
Download or read book Effectiveness of Hand Washing Among Healthcare Workers to Reduce Hospital acquired Infections written by Trisha Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor compliance to good handwashing practices is a worldwide public health problem. Most patient-to-patient bacteria is transmitted through the contaminated hand of health care workers. Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) cause more than 98,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. (HAIs) are avoidable and can be prevented with proper hand hygiene compliance. Hospitals and health facilities have focused greater attention on hand hygiene in the last few years because of growing concern about HAIs. Staff education is a key element of the implementation of an effective hand hygiene improvement program. Improvements in hand hygiene practices have a clearly demonstrable positive impact on nosocomial infection rates.
Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Download or read book First Do Less Harm written by Ross Koppel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients’ hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well-intentioned initiatives to address these problems, threats to patient safety remain and in some areas are on the rise. In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical. Several contributors to this book attribute the failure to confront patient safety concerns to the influence of the "market model" on medicine and emphasize the need for hospital-wide teamwork and greater involvement from frontline workers (from janitors and aides to nurses and physicians) in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective safety initiatives. Several chapters in First, Do Less Harm focus on the critical role of interprofessional and occupational practice in patient safety. Rather than focusing on the usual suspects—physicians, safety champions, or high level management—these chapters expand the list of "stakeholders" and patient safety advocates to include nurses, patient care assistants, and other staff, as well as the health care unions that may represent them. First, Do Less Harm also highlights workplace issues that negatively affect safety: including sleeplessness, excessive workloads, outsourcing of hospital cleaning, and lack of teamwork between physicians and other health care staff. In two chapters, experts explain why the promise of health care information technology to fix safety problems remains unrealized, with examples that are at once humorous and frightening. A book that will be required reading for physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health officers, quality and risk managers, healthcare educators, economists, and policymakers, First, Do Less Harm concludes with a list of twenty-seven paradoxes and challenges facing everyone interested in making care safe for both patients and those who care for them.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board written by United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Public Health Service Hospitals and Clinics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Federal Security Agency written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health care and Social service Workers written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Health Units written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Hospital Construction and Local Public Health Units and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (81) S. 132, (81) S. 522, (81) S. 1581, (81) S. 1679.
Download or read book Hand Hygiene written by Didier Pittet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die erste umfassende und wegweisende Publikation zur Handhygiene, eines der grundlegendsten und wichtigsten Themen bei der Infektionsbekämpfung und Patientensicherheit. Für alle medizinischen Berufe ist dieses Handbuch zur Handhygiene ein wichtiges Referenzwerk, geschrieben von weltweit führenden Wissenschaftlern und Klinikern. - Geschrieben von weltweit führenden Experten des Fachgebiets. - Berücksichtigt umfassend die Richtlinien und Vorschriften der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO). - Behandelt das Thema Handhygiene aus globaler Sicht, relevant für Industrie- und Entwicklungsländer. - Erörtert grundlegende sowie hochkomplexe klinische Anwendungen der Handhygiene. - Beinhaltet neue, ungewöhnliche Aspekte und Fragestellungen, wie religiöse und kulturelle Aspekte und die Einbeziehung der Patienten. - Bietet Leitlinien für nationale und weltweite Hygienekampagnen, für jeden Einzelnen, für Institutionen und Organisationen.
