Audit Report of Hand Hygiene in Hospital

AUDIT REPORT OF
HAND HYGIENE IN
HOSPITAL

Table of Contents
TOPIC: “To critically evaluate how hand hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall
compliance score within healthcare system. A study on Royal Berkshire NHS.”..........................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background.................................................................................................................................3
Aim and Objective......................................................................................................................4
“To critically evaluate how hand hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall compliance
score within healthcare system. A study on Royal Berkshire NHS.”..............................................4
Rationale of research...................................................................................................................4
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................5
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................9
IMPACT OF CHANGE ..................................................................................................................9
REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY .................................................................................................13
LEADERSHIP...............................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20

TOPIC: “To critically evaluate how hand hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall
compliance score within healthcare system. A study on Royal Berkshire NHS.”
INTRODUCTION
Background
Hand hygiene audit report tends to play one of the key significant role because it helps in
ensuring that, hand hygiene technique has been effectively practised within the healthcare in
order to follow prescribed recommended guidelines (Azim and et.al., 2016). Audit report of the
hand hygiene plays key significant role because it helps in effectively preventing the spread of
infection within the healthcare workers and patients. This can be done with the use of hand
washing technique and observational inspection. Hand hygiene audit report is of utmost
importance because it helps in avoiding infection at the time of ordinary patient care. Hand
hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall compliance score within healthcare system.
Healthcare practitioners helps in providing key significant solution in order to avoid spread of
infection among the care workers. Practising proper hand hygiene audit report within the
healthcare system helps in preventing the transmission of infection. Healthcare systems must
focus on regularly performing hand hygiene audit report because it helps in effectively
identifying the key training gaps and helps in basic infection control (What is Hand Hygiene
Audit?, 2020.). Hand hygiene audit report is significant because it tends to highly focus on
effectively identifying hand decontamination and hand preparation of all the health care
practitioners within the general practice because it helps in minimising the key risk of
transmission of the infection among care practitioners. It is one of the key relevant procedure
which helps in making sure that, hand hygiene technique has been effectively practised within
the healthcare in order to control infection among the healthcare practitioners. It is considered to
be very crucial for the safety of the staff within the heath care organization (McLaws and Kwok,
2018). This study will focus on critically evaluating how hand hygiene audit report helps in
measuring overall compliance score within healthcare system. Moreover, this study will also
determine the key challenges associated with the audit report of hand hygiene.
Royal Berkshire NHS hospital was founded in the year 1839 and tends to highly focus on
providing acute hospital services to the residents of the central and western parts of the
Berkshire. This hospital is effectively managed by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

The key aim of the Royal Berkshire NHS hospital is to focus on delivering high quality care
services to the people.
Aim and Objective
Aim
“To critically evaluate how hand hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall compliance
score within healthcare system. A study on Royal Berkshire NHS.”
Research Objectives
 To develop understanding of audit report of hand hygiene.
 To identify how audit report of hand hygiene helps in measuring overall compliance
score.
 To determine the key challenges associated with the audit report of hand hygiene.
The above mentioned are the key aims and objectives which are associated with the
research. Aim of the study tends to focus on critically evaluate how hand hygiene audit report
helps in measuring overall compliance score within healthcare system. It will help in examining
how such reports helps in reduction in the transmission of the infection among the healthcare
practitioners. The first objective is to understand the key concepts associated with the audit
report of hand hygiene in order to develop knowledge and key understanding related with the
subject matter. The second objective of the study states that, audit report of hand hygiene is
useful in measuring overall compliance score. It helps in automatically tracking the compliance
score across five moments. This way it will be useful to evaluate the hand hygiene techniques
amongst the healthcare workers. Lastly, another key objective for the research is to examine the
key challenges associated with the audit report of hand hygiene.
Research questions
 What do you understand by the audit report of hand hygiene?
 How audit report of hand hygiene helps in measuring overall compliance score?
 What are the key challenges associated with the audit report of hand hygiene?
Rationale of research
The key significant reason for the selection of this topic is that, it has been carried out for
the personal and academic interest of the researcher. This will help the researcher in gaining
better aspects associated with how hand hygiene audit report helps in measuring overall

compliance score within healthcare system. Another one of the key significant reason for the
selection of this topic is because it is a vast topic. This way it is beneficial for the researcher in
effectively gaining in- depth knowledge related with the subject matter. It will help the
researcher in gaining wider aspects and also helps in the accomplishment of the positive results.
This way it is useful in creating high degree of possibility in order to make the research
successful and reliable in an efficient and relevant manner.
BACKGROUND
Theme 1: To develop understanding of audit report of hand hygiene.
Gould and et.al., (2018) sought to establish the fact that, audit report of hand hygiene is
considered to be highly significant because it helps in evaluating the hand hygiene among the
health care practitioners. Hand hygiene audit report helps in gaining wide degree of analysis
which helps in assessing the various tools for maintaining hygiene level within the health care
organization. Audit report of the hand hygiene is very useful because it helps in the prevention of
the spread of infection. The hand hygiene audit report can be effectively performed within the
healthcare organization. Auditing is done by communicating with the administration of the
hospital and also communicate the period and purpose of carrying out the observation.
Identifying key specific areas of the audit like departments and rods where various range of
healthcare practitioners will be observed. The next step is to maintain privacy of the patient and
also observe the individual healthcare worker. Livorsi and et.al., (2018) examined the fact that,
there are five moments of hand hygiene in accordance with the World health organization which
comprises of before touching the patient, before clean procedure, after body fluid risk, after
touching a patient and after touching patient surrounding. The last step of the hand hygiene audit
is documenting and sharing of the key findings. The compliance score can be examined by the
ratio of the performed action and number of moments. The healthcare auditors tends to use
effective digital software by iAuditor which is considered to be highly significant in streamlining
the data reporting and gathering. It helps in inspection and taking corrective actions which helps
in generating key facilities which leads to better care results and outcomes.
Kwok, Juergens and McLaws, (2016) argued that, Hand hygiene audit report is of utmost
importance because it helps in avoiding infection at the time of ordinary patient care. Audit is
considered to highly significant because it helps in the better protection of the health care
practitioners. Hand hygiene is considered to be highly significant because it helps in effectively

reducing the transmission of the infection from one person to another. It helps in providing better
quality c are services to the people by effectively complying with the audit report of the hand
hygiene. Alcohol based formulation is considered to be of significant importance because it leads
to better results and outcomes. The hand hygiene technique with the alcohol based formulation
tends to take 20-30 seconds and the hand hygiene technique with the soap and water take around
40- 60 seconds. This way it helps in maintaining proper hygiene of the hand which in turn helps
in the attainment of the better results and outcomes associated with the care. The hand hygiene
is useful because it helps in effectively identifying the key training gaps and helps in basic
infection control measures in order to deliver the best possible care and outcomes. Trained and
valid auditors tends to effectively observe the hygiene patterns and compliance rate within the
healthcare system. Hand hygiene is considered to be as one of the key primary measure which is
very significant in reducing infections. Complying with the hand hygiene with appropriate
compliance rate within the audit report is highly significant. It helps in contributing to the greater
awareness and helps in understanding the key relevance and importance of hand hygiene.
Theme 2: Reason for audit report of hand hygiene help in measuring the compliance score.
As per the view of Gould and et.al, (2017) the hand hygiene is very essential for the clean
and safe working of the health care settings. This is essential for the health care setting as this is
the place wherein the people who are suffering from any disease are brought and treatment is
given to them. Thus, for this kind of place it is very essential to have the proper health and safety
measures and particularly the hand safety. This is majorly important because of the fact that
many kinds of infection and diseases can be spread with hands and due to this reason there is
necessity that the health care setup make strategies and measures for better hand hygiene.
In the opinion of Jolliff and Reed (2017) the major reason behind the proper hand
hygiene within the health care setup or the hospital is to promote health and safety at the
workplace. This is basically because of the reason that there are many different types of diseases
which can be spread because of hand contact. This affects the health and related aspect of the
health care setup as if the doctors and the health care attendant do not wash hand timely and they
come in contact with others then the infection can be spread and pass on to others.
Another major reason is which Kingston, O'Connell and Dunne, (2016) articulates for the
audit if hand hygiene is that this will help the health care setup in measuring the compliance
score. This is majorly because of the reason that when the timely checking will take place that