Hand Hygiene: Professional Safety

Running head: HAND HYGIENE: PROFESSIONAL SAFETY
HAND HYGIENE: PROFESSIONAL SAFETY
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Hand washing is a very much important factor that addresses the factor of the infection
control. In nursing care the reduction of infection is needed in a priority basis. The aspect of the
hand hygiene maintenance can be achieved by means of planning and implementing the changes
in the process. In order to implement the infection reduction measures STEEEP (safe, timely,
effective, efficient, equitable and patient centered) framework and QI (Quality improvement)
principles should be considered and the following section would discuss these factors (Lopes,
Sauers & Valier, 2017).
In order to maintain the aseptic control of the health care set up the nurses should be able
to wash their hands after every single interaction with patients and any kind of medication or
activities related to clinical treatment. Hence, one of the strategies for the hand hygiene
maintenance would be implementation of no touch policy by utilizing aseptic gloves. This
strategy would relate to the safety factor of the STEEEP framework and also timely and the
effective factor also as the no touch policy would reduce the factor of the infection in the health
care set up. The safety, time and effectiveness of the no touch policy would be assessed by
means of the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the changes occurs due to implementation of
the no touch policy.
On the other hand the QI factor should be considered that are the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-
Act) and the Lean Six Sigma factor as well. The nursing practitioner should be able to adhere to
the hand hygiene maintenance processes developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The processes of the hand hygiene maintenances devised by WHO includes the components such
as the alcohol based hand rub, antimicrobial soap, antiseptic agents, antiseptic hand wipe, and
detergent as surfactant, plain soap and waterless antiseptic agents. All these components should
be included in the strategy (Who.int, 2019). Hence, the steps of PDSA would be considered as

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the planning of the implementation should be done along with the financial planning and
timeframe planning as well. On the basis of the planning the management team should be able to
create a policy for the proper implementation of the plan and also empower the health care staffs
as well. Now the study factor comes in account where the management team observes the proper
implementation of the plan is working or not and what lacks are there which needed to be
addressed. On the basis of the study the changes should be implemented. On the other hand the
Lean Six Sigma policy which depends on the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control
(DMAIC) factors (Shabot et al., 2016). The factor of the DMAIC can be achieved by the
implementation of the no touch and the hand washing components according to the WHO
regulations would be demonstrated to the health care professionals then the measurements would
be analysed on the basis of the time need for the implementation of the plan and also the
financial cost of the strategy implementation. After the analysis of the planning implementation
the improvement and the control would be done. Hence, the no touch policy and the hand
hygiene factors of the safety implementation against the infection in the clinical sector. The
quality improvement can be achieved by the implementation of the hand hygiene and the proper
observation of the effectiveness of the policy in the infection control (Hess, Leisher, Limbu,
Magige & Kahwa , 2017).
Hence, the plan would be utilizing aseptic gloves and no touch policy in a priority basis.
On the other hand the usage of alcohol based hand rub, antimicrobial soap, antiseptic agents,
antiseptic hand wipe, and detergent as surfactant, plain soap and waterless antiseptic agents in
every regular interval or in every interaction with the clinical tools and interaction with patients.
Based on this discussion it can be stated that the implementation of the hand hygiene
changes based on the no touch and proper hand washing strategies of WHO would help in the