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Good afternoon,
I’m seeking advice from my colleagues in the Private Health sector as to how you run an effective hand hygiene program. I’m specifically referring to the challenges related to auditing where there are no hours allocated for auditing and in a climate of reduced clinical hours therefore making it even harder to fit auditing in with a very high workload for staff in clinical areas.
Kind regards,
CarienCarien Coleman | Infection Control CNC
The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital
Syd Lingard Drive | BUDERIM QLD 4556
PO Box 5050 | Maroochydore BC QLD 4558
T: (07) 5430 3245 | F: (07) 5430 3154
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Hi Carien
I have worked in private facilities that have different emphases in regard to hand hygiene audits.
One private facility provided no ward based resources for auditing, and said infection control had to do all of the auditing. The result of this was no ownership by ward managers or staff over either auditing or compliance results. Nothing changed, except infection control got less other stuff done.
Another private facility has enforced ward managers being responsible to provide a KPI for moments collected on their ward. This has resulted in multiple staff in each ward being trained as auditors, and ward managers taking ownership of the audit results and compliance results. Far more effective, in my (infection control biased) opinion. And is slowly changing the facility culture of healthcare worker hand hygiene, in my opinion.
I personally believe it is very short-sighted to say there is no financial return on hand hygiene auditing, which is often the argument not to commit resources. There is plenty of evidence that supports hand hygiene as the most likely indicator of the risk of transmission of MRO’s in a facility. If you can get wards and departments to take ownership of improving hand hygiene, it can have multiple flow on improvement effects, and have an overall impact on reduced healthcare associated infections.
All my opinion, of course.
Good luck.
Cheers
MichaelMichael Wishart
Infection Control CoordinatorA 627 Rode Road, Chermside QLD 4032
P (07) 3326 3068 | F (07) 3607 2226 | E michael.wishart@svha.org.au | W http://www.hsnph.org.au
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P Please consider the environment before printing this emailGood afternoon,
I’m seeking advice from my colleagues in the Private Health sector as to how you run an effective hand hygiene program. I’m specifically referring to the challenges related to auditing where there are no hours allocated for auditing and in a climate of reduced clinical hours therefore making it even harder to fit auditing in with a very high workload for staff in clinical areas.
Kind regards,
CarienCarien Coleman | Infection Control CNC
The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital
Syd Lingard Drive | BUDERIM QLD 4556
PO Box 5050 | Maroochydore BC QLD 4558
T: (07) 5430 3245 | F: (07) 5430 3154
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HI Carien,
In our private dialysis clinics we have
an IPC Champion (RN) who is given equivalent to one day non-clinical time
per month, to complete all the IPC audits and education including hand
hygiene auditing.
Before that we were not getting the
audits done as there was no time spare during a shift and the times hand
hygiene audits should be done was the busy times when all staff were doing
clinical work.
With best regards
Carolyn Chenoweth
Quality & Infection Prevention and Control Manager, Australia
Asia Pacific Quality & IPC SME. CICP
Fresenius Medical Care Australia Pty Ltd
Payneham Dialysis Clinic,
2 Portrush Road
PAYNEHAM 5070
Australia
T: +61 (0) 8 8165 4313
M: +61 (0) 407 810 800
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Date:
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Subject:
Hand Hygiene
Program
Good afternoon,
Im seeking advice from my colleagues
in the Private Health sector as to how you run an effective hand hygiene
program. Im specifically referring to the challenges related to
auditing where there are no hours allocated for auditing and in a climate
of reduced clinical hours therefore making it even harder to fit auditing
in with a very high workload for staff in clinical areas.
Kind regards,
Carien
Carien Coleman |
Infection Control CNC
The Sunshine Coast
Private Hospital
Syd Lingard Drive |
BUDERIM QLD
4556
PO Box 5050 |
Maroochydore BC
QLD 4558
T: (07) 5430
3245 | F:
(07) 5430 3154
E: carien.coleman@uchealth.com.au
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b4C=4Hi Carien,
although we are a very small health service and this is still been an issues for us. Frankly the only thing I find works is staff having allocated time to do the audits. The best time to get the audits done is when the shifts are at their busiest times of the day. So it is impossible for them to audit as there is too high of a workload, and invariably the staff who are auditing get pulled back onto the ward to do nursing tasks. Over the last few years I have consistently pushed the issue back to the line managers & senior management, and they have chosen to give their staff protected time to do it. Considering that the National Standards state that 3.5.2 Compliance rates are regularly reported to the highest level of governance in the organisation, it is essential that issues like this have executive support. Forwarding a report to the board that has blank spaces because the audits are not carried out would not look great.
I know how challenging it can be to get traction around some of this stuff, so I feel your pain. I have found however that the National Standards have been a fantastic tool to get resources allocated. 3.5 states workforce is audited, reports go to highest level, and action is taken to improve rates. If this is not being done, accreditatiors will notice.
Regards,
KellyKelly Barton
Infection Prevention & Control Officer
Monday- Friday
P Reduce, re-use, recycle. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.Good afternoon,
I’m seeking advice from my colleagues in the Private Health sector as to how you run an effective hand hygiene program. I’m specifically referring to the challenges related to auditing where there are no hours allocated for auditing and in a climate of reduced clinical hours therefore making it even harder to fit auditing in with a very high workload for staff in clinical areas.
Kind regards,
CarienCarien Coleman | Infection Control CNC
The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital
Syd Lingard Drive | BUDERIM QLD 4556
PO Box 5050 | Maroochydore BC QLD 4558
T: (07) 5430 3245 | F: (07) 5430 3154
E: carien.coleman@uchealth.com.auMESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.
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