Compliance of Infection Control Practices At out Patient Department At A Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 9
Abstract
Health care personnel should show compliance to guidelines of Infection control practices and antimicrobial stewardship programme to prevent nosocomial transmission of infectious pathogens. Main aim of the study is to prevent spread of the infection from person to person or from contaminated health care objects which anticipated contact with blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions etc., and also reduce the transmission blood borne pathogens. Compliance to infection control practices were observed among healthcare personnel in a secret basis without knowing to them before and after giving training activities. Spillage management, care of non critical items, changing sheets on couches was very badly handled by health care personnel before training, was 25%, 20%, 15% when compared to after training, was 90%, 86.6%, 100% respectively . Outbreak response is poor before and also after training activities, was 21.6% and 41.6% respectively. Remaining infection control practices were slightly improved among health care personnel after training and educational programmes. Staff shall be educated in preventing Hospital Acquired Infections based on the analysis of the surveillance. Conduct periodic training programmes for all healthcare workers to achieve safe working conditions.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. B Solomon Rajiv, Dr. Shreenivas Shouri
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