Advancement in the Field of Inquiry in Healthcare and Infection Risk Management

Running Head: ADVANCEMENT IN THE FIELD OF INQUIRY IN HEALTHCARE AND
INFECTION RISK MANAGEMENT
Advancement in the field of inquiry in healthcare and infection risk management
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Advancement in the field of inquiry in healthcare and infection risk management1
Abstract
The aim of this research proposal is to understand the importance of hand hygiene and it
plays a major role in spreading contagious diseases between patients and the process might
affect the care giver as well. A research study will be performed on a health facility centre to
gain a knowledge as to how much the care givers are inclined to self-care and simultaneously
caring for their patients as well. Nurses are considered to be a role model for the care
receivers in the context of maintaining hygiene. Thus, promoting self-care and hygiene
pertaining to washing of hands after every episode of care giving would ensure reduction in
the nosocomial infections in the hospital.
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Advancement in the field of inquiry in healthcare and infection risk management2
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Aim of the study.........................................................................................................................3
Statement of Purpose..............................................................................................................3
Problem Statement.................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Background literature.................................................................................................................5
Research methodology...............................................................................................................7
Ethical considerations................................................................................................................9
Limitations.................................................................................................................................9
Costing.......................................................................................................................................9
Time frame (Gantt chart)...........................................................................................................9
General credibility and Conclusion..........................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11

Advancement in the field of inquiry in healthcare and infection risk management3
Aim of the study
Statement of Purpose
Nurses are care giver ambassadors who should promote a healthy living and imbibe
healthy practices. The most crucial part of healthy living involves hygienic practices which
includes hand hygiene. This should be maintained everywhere at home and at work. They
should aim in promoting the health and hygiene. Hence, patients can easily imbibe these
healthy habits from their care givers and reduce the consequences of poor hygiene. The aim
of this article is to research the hygienic practices that are followed by a particular health
facility centre to establish the knowledge as to whether the nurses adhere to the healthy habits
or they just preach it but do not practice it themselves. It is considered to be an ethical
practice of the nurses to adhere to hygienic practices and effectively set good example to their
subjects who are the patients they are treating and help the patients to imbibe the practices
and result in reducing the chances of infections that occur due to low hygiene (Azim,
Juergens & McLaws, 2016).
Problem Statement
The increasing rate of nosocomial infections mainly the stomach infections is raising
the health alert. The crucial fact being that even the hospital attendants and other workers are
also acquiring the same. This states that if health professionals are infected the ramifications
may be high on the general citizen. Maintenance of high hand hygiene is of prior importance
because contaminated hands can be the root cause of stomach infections (Smith & Liehr,
2018). Many people have a misconception that hand hygiene can be considered a trivial
matter. As a result of which they encounter several health complications. To overcome such
situations and to promote hygienic and healthy self-care and care of their patients as well.