Teaching Program on Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Professionals

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A teaching program was organized for healthcare professionals to share knowledge about the effectiveness of hand hygiene in reducing MRSA and other diseases. Strategies and theories were used to enhance the learning process and overcome language barriers. The program was successful in improving the knowledge of the participants.

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Introduction
Hand hygiene plays an important role upon the health of human being. Numerous
bacteria and germs may present even in the clean hand which cannot be visible. These
bacteria and germs cause adverse effects on health and leads to serious life threatening
diseases also. MRSA is one of them in which there is a huge contribution of unhygienic and
bacteria full hand. In order to reduce the effects of the disease, it is important to improve the
hygiene of the hands (Marimuthu, Pittet & Harbarth, 2014). Washing hands with plain water
is not sufficient to maintain the hygiene of it. Bacteria will not be visible but will be present
and be equally effective in causing several health hazards among the people (White et al.,
2015). Many people do not know the exact way of maintaining the hand hygiene and people
are also not aware of the time when to perform hand hygiene especially while treating the
patients in healthcare (Kelly, Blackhurst, Boeker & Steed, 2016). In various literatures it has
been reviewed that compliance of hand-hygiene cause reduces the MRSA colonization and it
was proven in the survey conducted in the University of Geneva Hospital (Tyner et al., 2017).
In order to enhance the knowledge of the staff nurses I had been associated with a teaching
program held among the nurses in SNB. While teaching the nurses I had experienced a lot of
happenings which helped me to regain another series of knowledge.
Description
After collating the evidences from various literatures I found that hand hygiene is
regarded as one of the important and effective way to improve the health and reducing the
infectious diseases that includes MRSA. I felt that this important factor must be informed to
the health professionals so that they can also incorporate several strategies to improve the
hand hygiene while dealing with patients. I also feel that providing the best healthcare to the
patients there is a great contribution of cleanliness which includes a good hygiene of hands.

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In order to conduct the teaching program, 10 staffs were chosen and among them staff nurses,
enrolled nurses and patient care assistants were also included. The registered nurses, who had
communication barrier due to language problem and lack of English proficiency, were also
included in the teaching program. It was my desire to share my knowledge on hand hygiene
with all the staffs of SNB who are directly involved in the patient care. At the primary stage I
had set the goal and planned appropriate strategies to achieve that. I also highlighted the
learning outcomes after the completion of the teaching program. First of all, at the beginning
of the session I put a closer look on the environment. If the learners get a comfortable
environment, then their efficiency also increases which helps them in developing the
attention and acquiring the knowledge (Harrigan & Commons, 2015). While teaching the
staffs I found that all of the nurses were aware of the importance of hand hygiene and they
had the knowledge of basic hand hygiene as well as the 5 moments of hand hygiene. I entered
the hall in my ward where the whole set up was organised with my laptop and projector to
show video and pamphlet as well as power point presentation as a part of teaching process. In
order to save the time of the presentation and the teaching program, I had distributed the
pamphlets among all the learners, so that they can get a primary idea and the time can also be
saved. I used various strategies and theories in order to improve the learning process and the
environment for learning. I also acquired several strategies to increase the compliance for
hand hygiene. To get an idea about the learning outcome, I performed a small assessment
through some activities after the delivery of speech and knowledge among learners. At the
end of the session, to encourage all the participants I prepare 10 MCQ questions with
different scenarios so that they can assess own knowledge about the discussed topic. During
the whole teaching process, I noticed that nurses were courageous to know the facts
associated with the program but somehow, language gap stood as the main barrier between
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them. However, to address the issue I incorporated some strategies in my program, so that all
of them can understand the main facts that are being discussed.
Feelings
At the time of the teaching program I thought it was necessary to be attentive about
the needs of the participant so that they can sit comfortably and also can ask question when
required. In this purpose, I used Maslow Hierarchy Theory to address the comfort issue and
needs of the participants (Harrigan & Commons, 2015). This hierarchy model addresses the
safety as well as self actualization needs (Shmeleva, Kislyakov, Luneva & Maltseva, 2015).
It also addresses the physiological needs such as food, water etc. I wanted to make all the
participants comfortable and supported them with sufficient food and water during the
teaching program. I felt that including evidence based practice in the teaching program can be
helpful as well as interesting for the participants to understand the whole program. I was also
aware of the language barrier and to overcome the issue I applied Vygotsky theory for the
cognitive development of the participants (Ali & Watson, 2018). In order to accomplish this I
engaged the participants in some activity-based learning processes. I also incorporated Kolb’s
learning style model in my teaching strategy so that the strength of understanding can be
increased among the participants (McKenna, Copnell, Butler & Lau, 2018). I used video and
power point presentation in the teaching program and it helped the participants in thinking
and cultivating the learned theories in their mind. Participants were asked to express their
feelings also.
Evaluation
The main positive side of the whole teaching program was that nurses had basic
knowledge about the importance of hand hygiene and 5 moments of hand hygiene too
(Moghnieh et al., 2017). Also, the participants were enthusiastic enough and they were a
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good listener. They actively participated during the whole teaching program. But, the main
negative side was when I went to elaborate the 5 moments of hand hygiene they could not
clearly understand my words due to language gap as I used English as communication
language and many of the participants had not proficiency in English. According to my
opinion, this language barrier created various problems in the whole teaching program.
Analysis
As there were language gap, I used some demonstrative strategies. I showed them
video and a demonstration of 7 steps of hand-washing (Clark et al., 2018). All the participants
were excited and they enthusiastically performed the tasks. While teaching them I realized all
of the participants were active and they already knew the basic methods of washing hands. I
felt, sometimes patient care is hampered due to this language barrier issue as many of the
nurses cannot communicate properly with the patients due to this barrier. I also realized that
Kolb’s learning style was so much helpful in this regard as it incorporated visual
demonstration which was easily understandable by the nurses with language gap.
Conclusion
Looking back at the whole teaching program I can see that it was successful and all of
the nurses and other participants were highly interested during the whole program.
Throughout the teaching process they were extremely attentive as well as active. They were
patient enough to attentively listen the whole program and they also participated in the
activities associated with the teaching program courageously. Applying the theories and the
strategies were so much helpful to address all the issues and barriers. Even, the participants
were comfortable with the environment also. This teaching program helped me have more
respect for them as all of them kept their patience instead of presence of language barrier
during the program.

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Action plan
In future, I will aim to develop some more strategies to address the communication
gap. I will arrange some more demonstrative and activity-based program where the
participants can actively participate instead of just listening to the lecture during the program.
If I could show some more data on MRSA then it would be better for them to understand the
issues associated with it. I will make this goal as my learning and will try to find other
strategies which will help such program to gain more success.
Summary
In order to share more knowledge about the effectiveness of hand hygiene in reducing
the MRSA and other diseases I had organised a teaching program for the staffs of SNB where
10 participants were chosen, and the teaching program incorporated many strategies to
enhance the learning process. This program helped me to gain more knowledge and respect
about the staffs and I also realized how language stood as a main barrier for them in the
patient care. This barrier also created several issues during the teaching program.
Recommendation
I felt that, in order to address the issue of language barrier, if an interpreter would
present then many of the staffs would be benefited. In the video, if subtitles of preferred
language can be used then it would be easier to understand for the participants. If some
bilingual and drama-based program can be organized then such program will be more
interesting to the participants. However, this teaching program was helpful enough to find the
exact issues which will be helpful in future to address the issues before organizing any
teaching program.
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References
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