Quality Improvement Project for Hand Hygiene Compliance in Hospitals

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
-PRESENTED BY:

STEEP Framework:
 The STEEP framework stands for providing a safe, timely,
effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centred care to the
patients
 Effective compliance with the STEEP framework aims to provide
care to the patients within a holistic environment
 The major transmitting agent of contamination within the
hospital setting has been reported to be poor hand hygiene
 Complying with the WHO guidelines of effective hand hygiene,
the incidence of infection can be prevented to a significant extent

Objectives:
 To initiate patient’s hand-hygiene in
order to comply with the STEEP
framework
 Following the hand hygiene regimen
under the supervision of trained
nursing staff would help in the
reduction of health care related
infections
 Studies reveal that improper
maintenance of hand hygiene
contributes to over 80% of
infections (Allegranzi et al., 2013)
 Care givers are placed at an
increased risk of developing
infections (Gould et al., 2017)

Quality Improvement Principle
 The six-sigma tool is a quality improvement
tool (J Liberatore, 2013)
 It comprises of five important elements that
include, Defining the problem, Measuring
the problem, Analysing the problem,
Improving the problem and Controlling the
problem (Hunt et al., 2014)
 Inclusion of stringent hand hygiene protocol
has been reported to reduce the incidence
of infections up to 72% (Gould et al., 2017)
 It can hence be stated that complying with
HH would also help in the reduction of
infections among the nursing professionals
 With the help of the six-sigma tool the
quality standard would be effectively
enhanced at every step