What is clinical governance

Clinical governance principles in Health care setting
Focus on Hand hygiene
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Clinical governance

Clinical governance offers a systematic approach towards improvement and
maintenance of the quality of life in the National Health Service. It is a
framework that is geared towards improving the care quality, level of services
and safeguarding through high care standards thus the need for improving hand
hygiene in the care practice. This enables the flourishing of excellent clinical care
practices (Graves et al., 2016).
Adoption and integration of clinical governance in the care practice are
essential as it supports improvements controlling infection. The focus has been
to ensure that infection control practices are based on evidence ad self-
regulation aspects of adherence. Clinical governance has been recognized as an
integral avenue for offering care of high quality and safe services for the
patients. Clinical governance entrenches dimensions of quality approaches,
culture, avoidance risks, and coherence. Clinical governance has been a
fundamental framework for understanding the underlying operations of infection
control practices. (Halton et al., 2016). Fundamental pillars relevant in this task
entail clinical effectiveness and research and risks management in care practice.
Clinical effectiveness and research
Clinical governance calls for application of available evidence based research
in providing effective and quality outcomes for patients. In health care practice
engaging in evidenced based approaches in making and working in care settings
fundamental. Application of standard guidelines such NICE and other bodies is
crucial in this approach. This pillar calls for continued research in improving care
quality processes.
Risks management
Risks management in care practice entails avenues for monitoring and
minimizing risks of health care workers and patients. Further it is essential to
improve overall health quality outcome of patients. Hand hygiene practice is thus
an essential tool for risks management and reduced of hospital acquired
infections and improvement of overall care quality state.
Hand hygiene practices
Hand hygiene is viewed as the bests and key element in controlling
infections. With the increase in the burden of healthcare-associated infections,
increase in disease states and occurrence, complex treatment processes,