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QI PROJECT TITLE
Introduction • West Anaheim Medical Center • 219-bed acute care hospital in Anaheim, California • Medical-Surgical inpatient care, emergency & surgical services, comprehensive heart center, diagnostic imaging (West Anaheim Medical Center, 2020) • Hand hygiene compliance rate of medical-surgical unit 73% despite CDC guidelines in place. • WAMC compliance rate for hand hygiene 87% • Focus of project: increase hand hygiene compliance on Medical-Surgical unit
Background • Association between hand hygiene and infection prevention is strong • The challenge is to increase and maintain the rates of compliance for hand hygiene among healthcare workers. • Poor hygiene can have consequences for patients i.e: increasing healthcare-associated infections, increasing patient’s stay in hospital, resistance to antibiotics, increase mortality, or increase health care costs (Sadule-Rios & Aguilera, 2017). • A studies shows that when there is an improvement of 10% in hand washing, there is a decrease of 6% of hospital-acquired infections (Sickbert-Bennet et al., 2016).
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Problem and Aim Statement • Problem statement • Hand hygiene is the first defense to prevent infections among patients. Although the CDC guidelines are set in place for proper hand hygiene throughout the hospital, there is a low compliance rate in the Medical- Surgical unit at West Anaheim Medical Center. • Aim Statement • The aim of this quality improvement project is to increase compliance rates among staff for hand hygiene from 73% in the Medical- Surgical unit to 85% compliance rate among healthcare staff by April 1, 2020.
Approach #1 • Approach # 1. Providing a Questionnaire & Multimodal Education • Education on hand hygiene could be done during morning huddles, in- services, and placing posters. • Various teaching strategies like verbal information during huddles, computer screen savers, posters, and in-services, it is shown learning can be promoted (Najafi Ghezeljeh, Abbasnejad, Rafii, & Haghani, 2015). • The multimodal approach was implemented in one study • with the combination of different teaching methods like video presentation, pamphlets, posters, screensaver methods and even feedback can improve staff’s retention of hand hygiene knowledge (Najafi et al., 2015).
Approach #2
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Potential for Success
Change Theory
Action Plan
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Performance Improvement Tool
Results
Pre- Post Implementation Data
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Analysis
Evaluation
Conclusion & Recommendations
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