Critical Evaluation of Infection Prevention and Control Practice

A critical evaluation of an
infection prevention and
control practice procedure or
policy

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT................................................................................................3
STRATEGY....................................................................................................................................5
EVALUATION...............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Every organisation has set of procedures, policies, rules, regulations, practices and many
more other things which help in ensuring that the consumers and the employees of the company
are safe and sound. This must also ensure that the patients are receiving proper care more than
what they deserve. The hospital settings and the institutions must be able to identify and manage
the potential of its employees and must also ensure that the condition of the patient does not
worsens or there is no spread of the infections or even there must be no chances of the adverse
outcomes (Ari, 2020). In order to ensure this, the management of the hospitals must focus on the
employees and the ways in which they implement the appropriate practices and strategies. This
report will shed light on the hospitals of Australia and their procedures and the recent obtained
case of infection control. This will help in making recommendations which can help in
controlling the infection as well as implementing the strategies which can be safe, cost effective
and maintains the respect for the cultural values.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Infection control deals in preventing or spreading of the infections in the settings of
healthcare. The present time is the most evident example which can help in knowing the extent
to which infections easily spread and can lead to much adverse outcomes. This time of pandemic
of COVID-19 will also help the practitioners and the registered nurses to improve the services
and the care provided which can help in controlling the spread of the infection which is virus in
this case. This case is mostly focused on the example of a home care which consists of 34 bed
home catering which gives admission to the residents who are diagnosed with some disease or
infection and who have different kinds of catering requirements. In this case, the 12 residents and
2 staff got affected by the infection. This is identified by certain symptoms which included
headaches, sore throat, productive cough, depression, increased confusion and many other
symptoms (Jeyanathan and et.al., 2020). There were various teams which are working closely
with the home care and its setting which can help in analysing the ways in which the outbreak of
COVID-19 pandemic is managed in the most efficient way. The teams include the infection
prevention and control team and department of health and human service and many others. There
is n a need to improve the services and the effectiveness of these teams so that infection cannot
be spread and also no one in the settings get affected. There is an urgent need of some
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recommendations for the hospital settings of Australia which can help in improving the hygiene
of the hospitals and also can help in saving the individuals from getting affected (Wu and et.al.,
2020). The infection control consultants must ensure that the hospital settings adhere to a
systematic procedure which must be regularly monitored and evaluated so that possible measures
could be taken to improve the same. This can be helpful in the current time of pandemic of
COVID-19. The outbreak of this virus and the pandemic must be managed very systematically
and properly so that the chain of infection can be broken and many people can be saved. There is
critical analysing and evaluation of the outbreak management procedure regarding the Outbreak
management planning in Aged care which must be set by Aged care quality and safety
commission. The management of the hospital settings needs to be suitable and appropriate which
can adhere to the procedures and policies and can also develop and implement the completely
new policies which can help in managing the changes needed for the improvement of symptoms
of the patient and quality of life (Dahab and et.al., 2020).
Infections basically occur when the germs or virus enter the body, increase in number and then
cause some kind of reactions in the body. There are many things which can cause infection to
occur which include a sources, susceptible person and transmission. Source is basically an
infectious agent which refers to bacteria, virus or other microbes. The people can also act as
source of germs in the healthcare settings it can include healthcare workers, patients, household
members and the visitors. Susceptible person deals in the people who are not vaccinated or they
are either not immune or they have weakened immune system. They act as way for the germs in
entering the body of humans. For occurring of the infection, germs need to enter the body of
susceptible person where they need to invade tissues and then cause reaction by multiplying.
Transmission is the path through which germs move to the susceptible person. Germs do not
have the ability to move themselves; they need a medium to move (Savitsky and et.al., 2020).
These include environment, medical equipments, contact like touching, inhalation or sharp
injuries etc. The government also needs to support the healthcare settings by providing various
resources which can help the companies in making changes in the policies whenever required.
These resources can help the healthcare settings in making improvements which shows the
readiness of the company for managing the outbreaks.
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